None of us would get on a plane that had its parts changed in mid-air, says Eve Marder, who has spent her career probing a very specific cluster of crustacean nerve cells. Yet we are all walking around undergoing a constant turnover of cellular parts, and so are the lobsters and crabs Marder studies.

In addition to encoding self location, brain cells in the rat hippocampus act like a GPS that encodes the location of other rats.

Science & art: how NMR works and how NMR spectra have been used to compose music based on molecular structures.

ANT1 mutations found in bipolar disease that affect mitochondria lead to hyperexcitable serotonergic neuronal activity in the brain.