The human immune system is finely tuned to detect and destroy viral threats. But this same defense system can misfire. When ...

The protocol developed by the Franco-Japanese team is as elegant as it is robust. Scientists prepare sets of DNA fragments of entirely synthetic origin, from which they generate identical replicas ...

Hagfish and lampreys form the clade cyclostomes, the earliest branching lineage of the vertebrates. Although hagfish are generally assumed to have experienced intense modifications, its brain ...