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Mutations in an enzyme involved in protein degradation affect a signaling pathway that stimulates the development of the digestive tract.

The use of stone tools by macaques in Thailand has reduced the size and population density of coastal shellfish; previously it was thought that tool-assisted overharvesting effects resulted uniquely from human activity.

Many developmental functions in marsupials and eutherian mammals are accomplished by different tissues, but similar genes.

G protein-coupled receptor stimulation inhibits TRPM3 channel activity through direct binding of the Gβγ subunit to the channel.

A region of the brain called the putamen has a central role in memory consolidation during sleep.

Being able to take up DNA from their environment might allow pneumococcal bacteria to colonize the human nose and throat for longer periods of time.

Radiomics has the potential to improve the management of cancer patients, but further research is required before it can be adopted into routine clinical practice.

Iodixanol provides an easy and affordable solution to a problem that has limited resolution and brightness when imaging living samples.

A clock gene expressed in skeletal muscle plays a bigger role in regulating sleep than it does in the brain.

Careful analysis of a database populated by physicians and patients sheds new light on the side effects of drugs.