DNA in the dark

4 March 2019 by Buchi Okereafor

The number of mystery proteins in the human body, whose roles are unknown, could be as high as 20%, according…

Open Biology: our first and next steps

1 March 2019 by Buchi Okefeafor

Last month marked a subtle yet significant milestone for Open Biology. In February 2012, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief Professor David Glover,…

Environmental change is inevitable so you’d better be plastic

26 February 2019 by Callum Shoosmith

Philosophical Transactions B recently published a theme issue entitled ‘The role of plasticity in phenotypic adaptation to rapid environmental change’….

Synthetic glycobiology

15 February 2019 by Anita Kristiansen

The latest Interface Focus issue focuses on synthetic glycobiology — a fusion of the fields of synthetic biology and glycobiology….

Chimpanzee gestures follow the same laws as human languages

13 February 2019 by Shalene Singh-Shepherd

A new article published in Proceedings B investigated linguistic laws used in gestural communication of chimpanzees. The first author of…