Not-for-profit Jisc and the Microbiology Society announce a pilot transitional open access agreement. The "Publish and Read" deal will allow researchers at participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of open-access articles, as well as access to the society’s full portfolio in return for a cost neutral fixed fee.

During embryonic development, the entire nervous system, the skin and the sensory organs emerge from a single sheet of cells known as the ectoderm. While there have been extensive studies of how this sheet forms all these derivatives, it hasn't been possible to study the process in humans - until now.

Since its invention during WWII, researchers have been trying to pinpoint precisely how DEET actually affects mosquitos. New research suggests DEET may chemically “cloak” humans from malaria-carrying mosquitos, rather than repel them.

Johns Hopkins researchers have shed new light on the role of the immune system in the progression of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) and have also discovered a drug that may help prevent ACM symptoms and progression to heart failure.