Sponges are arguably the simplest animals and they lack a nervous system, but peculiar cells in their digestive chambers may be evolutionary precursors of neurons
Sir Jeremy Farrar liked a post that accused UK ministers of seeing old people as expendable at around the time he stood down from No10 s scientific advisory panel at the end of October.
Writing in EMBO reports, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health describe how a pair of fundamental genetic and cellular processes are exploited by cancer cells to promote tumor survival and growth.