Body size is central to ecology at levels ranging from organismal fecundity to the functioning
of communities and ecosystems. Understanding temperature‐induced variations in body …

Over the past decade, we have seen rapid advances in applying nanotechnology in
biomedical areas including bioimaging, biodetection, and drug delivery. As an emerging …

Maintenance of genome stability requires control over the expression of transposable
elements (TEs), whose activity can have substantial deleterious effects on the host …

With the completion of the human genome sequence, attention turned to identifying and
annotating its functional DNA elements. As a complement to genetic and comparative …

Reductive genomic evolution, driven by genetic drift, is common in endosymbiotic bacteria.
Genome reduction is less common in free-living organisms, but it has occurred in the …

Background Biological invasions are a major ecological and socio-economic problem in
many parts of the world. Despite an explosion of research in recent decades, much remains …

Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have gained widespread attention in recent years as a
potentially new and crucial layer of biological regulation. lncRNAs of all kinds have been …

John Dupré explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their
relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and …

Recently, DNA nanostructures with vast application potential in the field of biomedicine,
especially in drug delivery. Among these, tetrahedral DNA nanostructures (TDN) have …

Some notable exceptions aside, eukaryotic genomes are distinguished from those of
Bacteria and Archaea in a number of ways, including chromosome structure and number …