Artificially selecting microbial communities: If we can breed dogs, why not microbiomes?

Regeneration If They Can Do It, Why Can't We?

The therapeutic potential of stem cells and nuclear cloning has led to renewed interest in classical models of regeneration. This longstanding problem is undergoing a renaissance spurred by the availability of new techniques that finally allow analysis on the cellular and molecular level.

Why move the eyes if we can move the head?

To see while moving is a very basic and integrative sensorimotor function in vertebrates. To maintain visual acuity, the oculomotor system provides efficient compensatory eye movements for head and visual field displacements. Other types of eye movement allow the selection of new visual targets and binocular vision and stereopsis. Motor and premotor neuronal circuits involved in the genesis and...

Ask "WHY NOT?" Not "WHAT IF?"

The editor-in-chief asks: with strong evidence in favour of collaborative practice, why has it not yet been adopted across the system? What is holding it back?

Why We Can Not Surpass Capacity: The Matching Condition

We show that iterative coding systems can not surpass capacity using only quantities which naturally appear in density evolution. Although the result in itself is trivial, the method which we apply shows that in order to achieve capacity the various components in an iterative coding system have to be perfectly matched. This generalizes the perfect matching condition which was previously known f...

Why Can We See a Local Spread of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) Infection?