Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

There are astonishing similarities between molecular mechanisms in neural stem cells and pancreatic islet cells, new research shows. This may lead to new forms of therapy, particularly for diabetes.

The greatest implication of evolutionary theory is the common kinship of living things. It is expressed no better than by Henry Harris in The Birth of the Cell (Yale University Press, 2000) as “the ...