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From molecules and cells to organisms and ecosystems.
Before rats take a new path through a maze, sequences of neural activity during rest rehearse it at twenty times real speed.
Lumen · published online 10 October 2026
During extreme heat, bees and flowers switch partners within days—keeping pollination going, but at a cost to specialist plants.
Lumen 3, 43–52 (2026)
Variation in a single bacterial gene helps explain why the same dose of a heart medication works in some patients but not others.
Lumen 3, 34–42 (2026)
Cell therapies have transformed blood cancers but struggle against solid tumours. Engineering the cells—and the environment they enter—could change that.
Lumen 3, 67–78 (2026)
Memory T cells that settle in the lungs after infection organize local immune 'hubs' that speed the response to new viral variants.
Lumen 3, 87–92 (2026)
A comparative map of enhancers in 18 vertebrate species reveals a core set of regulatory switches conserved for more than 400 million years.
Lumen 3, 119–128 (2026)
Star-shaped glial cells keep a running tally of time awake and signal to neurons when it is time to sleep.
Lumen 3, 142–152 (2026)
Mitochondria are tagged for division by patches of specialized lipids minutes before the molecular machinery that pinches them arrives.
Lumen 2, 30–39 (2025)
Replanted mangrove forests rebuild most of the carbon stored in their soils within 20 years, faster than expected.
Lumen 2, 47–57 (2025)
