The pond at Oxford University Parks is not much to look at. It is a small, artificial freshwater basin on the edge of campus, the kind of place students walk past on the way to lectures. But in April ...

Gene editing can repair mutations that prematurely halt protein synthesis, resulting in incomplete peptides that cause various diseases. However, other approaches achieve the same effect without ...

Somewhere in a sample of ordinary pond water, a single-celled organism has been quietly breaking one of biology’s most fundamental rules. Condylostoma magnum, a free-living ciliate barely visible to ...