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A study led by Ivan Rodriguez’s group reveals a key role for the claustrum in working memory. Published in Nature Communications, the findings shed light on how the brain maintains information over time.

Developed at the LANE laboratory, NewtonBioMorphX is a free, open-source application for simulating how mechanical forces shape developing tissues.

Nagoshi's lab study in fruit flies reveals how signals from the biological clock are transmitted to brain circuits to regulate wakefulness throughout the day.

Researchers have developed a large-scale soft robotic arm inspired by the African elephant trunk. The study, co-authored by Michel Milinkovitch, demonstrates how principles derived from elephant biomechanics can help design more adaptable robotic systems.

New study reveals conserved yet flexible mechanisms driving reptile chromatophore differentiation. Milinkovitch-Tzika lab team identified novel cell subtypes in snakes & bearded dragons.

Chemotaxis explains how mammalian hair follicle patterns self-organize.

Watch the stunning video celebrating David Attenborough’s 100th birthday.

Milinkovitch’s lab reveals that elephant skin cracks as a stiff epidermis bends over microscopic bumps, forming a water‑retaining network for cooling. Their study of the trunk’s simple deformation patterns is now informing flexible soft‑robotic grippers.

A study by the UNIGE and the EMBL hows how the variety of species morphology results from the diversity of the mechanical properties of tissues.

A study by UNIGE and MHNG shows that 240-million-year-old coelacanths could hear underwater using an ossified lung.