Articles by Richard P. Grant

Now RNA can glow in the cell, as only proteins could in the past.

Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. 

Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.

Editor’s Choice in Neuroscience

Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.

Editor’s choice in Ecology

Epigenetic perturbations could jump-start heritable variation.

Editor’s Choice in Developmental Biology

Have researchers found the seat of urination control in a primitive brain region?

Editor's Choice in Immunology

Using the strongest molecular binding partnership in biology to separate different cell types.

Editor’s Choice in Plant Biology

New types of biological filaments are turning up in yeast, fly, bacterial cells and in rat neurons, and they may yield clues to how the cytoskeleton evolved from metabolically active enzymes.

Editor's Choice in Physiology