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.

Scientists have developed ultra-thin photovoltaic solar cells that can be incorporated into fabric and even washed.

A new way to image the brain from outside the head using bioluminescence.

iPS cell-derived retinal cells have been successfully transplanted from one monkey to another without need of immunosuppressant drugs.