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The great pond snail is a multipurpose model organism and a contemporary choice for addressing a wide range of biological questions, problems and phenomena in the laboratory and the field.

Experiments in sea cucumbers reveal how the physiological responses regulated by a neuropeptide called kisspeptin have evolved.

Early-career researchers feel discouraged from exposing vulnerability even during a global crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated the need for a global system to monitor the dynamics of susceptibility and immunity, as well as infection, during epidemics and pandemics.

Thousands of UK doctoral students and early-career researchers shared the repercussions of lockdown on their work and wellbeing.

eLife is pleased to present a Special Issue to highlight recent advances in the mechanistic understanding of the immune response to cancer cells.

Struggling to get her research project up and running in a new country, a mother gets inspiration from her young daughter.

Reliable biomarkers are needed to test the effectiveness of interventions intended to improve health and extend lifespan.

The gene that allows budding yeast cells to switch their mating type evolved from a newly discovered family of genes named weird HO.

Sex-inclusive research practices have increased in many biological disciplines over the past decade, yet critical sex-based analyses and reporting have remained stagnant in most of these disciplines.