Tools for studying how cancer spreads

The domination of model organisms and charismatic megafauna in the literature is a disservice to the life sciences.

Mitochondrial DNA polymerase is necessary for the destruction of paternal mtDNA in fruit fly sperm, scientists show.

Some scientists hope to replace microbiology’s workhorse bacterium with fast-growing Vibrio natriegens.

Why can science still not define this most basic biological process?

Replacing yeast genes with their human equivalents reveals functional conservation despite a billion years of divergent evolution.

From diagnostics to vaccines, llama antibodies point to new directions in HIV research.

From plants to mice and human cells, tetracyclines lead to mitochondrial dysfunction in model organisms.

A new guinea pig model of Ebola viral transmission shows that direct contact with infected animals is not necessary to catch the disease.