The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a ...
eLife

Revealing global stoichiometry conservation architecture in cells from Raman spectral patterns

Conservation levels of gene expression abundance ratios are globally coordinated in cells, and cellular state changes under such biologically relevant stoichiometric constraints are readable as ...
eLife

Gene specificity landscapes for comparative transcriptomic analysis across tissues, cell types, and species

This important study advances a new computational approach to measure and visualize gene expression specificity across different tissues and cell types. The framework is potentially helpful for ...

You can order your own blood work now. Interpreting the results is another story

Firms like Function Health and Oura market regular blood tests to people wanting to take their health into their own hands.
Harvard Medical School

Massive Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Recent Human Evolution

The work demonstrates the power of ancient DNA to illuminate human biology and medicine in addition to history. A massive ...