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A roundup of recent discoveries in behavior research

Some of the highlights from this year’s American Society for Cell Biology meeting, held earlier this week

For honeybees, there’s no place like home. And every year, they must find a new one. Now, a study publishing today (December 8) in Science suggests that the honeybee swarms use inhibitory signals when house-hunting, paralleling the human brain’s decision-making process.

Researchers use optogenetics to reverse drug-induced brain and behavioral changes.

Prognostic signatures have become popular tools in cancer research, but it turns out signatures made of random genes are prognostic as well.

Gene expression controlled from afar may have spurred the spurt in brain evolution that led to modern humans.

A snapshot of the most highly ranked articles in ecology, from Faculty of 1000

A new Ebola vaccine candidate protects mice against death and can be produced quickly in response to a bioterrorism threat.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria keep their protective genes, even when antibiotics are no longer given.

New research suggests that a controversial class of stem cells originates in the heart and retains some ability to repair damaged tissue.

Japanese researchers are launching an iPS cell trial for an untreatable eye disease, challenging ongoing embryonic stem cell trials.

A 19th century geologist and minister investigates a prehistoric cave full of hyena bones in his native England.