Communications Biology
An open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological sciences, representing significant advances and bringing new biological insight to a specialized area of research.
Whoops from within: a glimpse behind the scenes of “Mucosal immune responses and intestinal microbiome associations in wild spotted hyenas”
Ever wondered what makes animals in the wild so tough?
Unlocking the Molecular Mechanisms of BSEP Dysfunction: Toward Precision Therapies for PFIC2
From protein structure to precision medicine – how structural perturbations in a membrane protein may offer a blueprint to creating targeted therapies for a rare childhood genetic disease.
Father’s adolescent body silhouette is associated with offspring asthma, lung function and BMI through DNA methylation
People whose fathers were overweight as teenagers had epigenetic markers associated with asthma, obesity and low lung function.
How M2 neurons represent locomotion in different environmental contexts
We imaged neuronal activity in the secondary motor cortex using a miniscope while mice moved freely in three distinct environments, and found both context-dependent and context-independent encoding patterns.
The memory of salt: searching for ancient microbial life biosignatures on Earth and Mars
Salt: both friend and foe. On Earth and Mars, some brines may preserve traces of ancient microbial life, others may destroy them. Using dead halophile cell envelope extracts, we show that UV and salt composition together control biosignature preservation. To get there, we had to tame salt in the lab
