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Surgical weight loss treatments reduce breast cancer growth in obese mice, but not as well as dietary interventions.

How do nerve stem cells, and the cells derived from them, build complex neuronal circuits in the fruit fly nerve cord?

Distantly-related fish species that produce electrical fields share common brain structures, providing insights into how behaviours and brains evolve together.

The maturing pituitary gland of newborn mice has activated stem cells that require WNT signalling and can fully regenerate.

Some single-cell organisms are equipped with a structure that allows them to swim – but how expensive is it?

The lungs of vertebrates evolved from being a single organ to a paired structure which allowed formerly aquatic animals to breathe more easily as they transitioned to life on land.

Velcro-like attachments allows bacteria to grow on medical devices.

A fungal species that is able to reproduce without a mate developed its self-fertility ability via a unique evolutionary pathway.