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.

A new brain imaging study shows that autistic severity is linked to how long certain regions of the brain store information.

Discovery of an enzyme that prevents obesity in mice through glycosylation of a protein involved fat-cell differentiation.