To avoid wasting digestive energy, the plant only seals shut after sensing certain prey movements.

The antimicrobial compounds ants excrete to defend themselves from pathogens may protect plants as well.

Trigger hairs on the lobes of the trap are tuned to respond to wriggling prey.

A newly identified group of viruses may help suppress eukaryotes’ immune response and promote tolerance of endosymbiotic bacteria.

Organelles isolated from two types of neurons and a nonneuronal astrocyte in the mouse cerebellum showed varying levels of proteins, hinting at functional differences.

The drug, called memantine, could enter clinical trials to determine its effectiveness in humans.

A study finds variations in the levels of proteins for some important processes among organelles from different brain cells.

A single-cell map of C. elegans’s transcriptome during development finds cell lineages that start out genetically different and end up as cells of similar function and genetic profile.

Cable bacteria can live in stirred-up sediments by associating with structures built by Chaetopterus variopedatus.