Viruses Remodel Host Membranes to Promote Their Replication
Viruses Remodel Host Membranes to Promote Their Replication - Viruses know how to make themselves at home in host cells while rapidly proliferating. Watch and listen as Nihal Altan-Bonnet and colleag...
Evolution of transcription factor families - Expansion of transcription factor families correlates with organism complexity. Dr. Marian Walhout and her colleagues have carried out a large-scale syste...
Complete Growth Cone Response to a Concanavalin-A-Coated Microneedle
Complete Growth Cone Response to a Concanavalin-A-Coated Microneedle - An Aplysia growth cone advances in response to a concanavalin-A-coated microneedle. Bottom: the temporal profile of traction forc...
A Circuit for Choices Based on Curiosity - Co-authors Tommy Blanchard and Ben Hayden summarize the high points of their paper published in Neuron. They give some background details, explain the broade...
A Conserved Dedicated Olfactory Circuit for Detecting Harmful Microbes in Drosophila
Marcus Stensmyr and colleagues explain how they discovered a brain circuit that signals disgust to rotten food in fruit flies, helping the flies to sniff out and avoid harmful environments....
The decades worth of data that has been collected about the billions of neurons in the brain is astounding. To help scientists make sense of this "brain big data," researchers at Carnegie Me...
Imperfect Mimics Can Succeed as Long as They Mimic the Most Salient Trait
There are many surprising examples of imperfect mimicry in nature, and their existence remains a major unsolved conundrum. Kazemi et al. present a novel explanation of the phenomenon and test it with ...
In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...
BRCA2 Bandages Stalled Forks - Maria Jasin and Katharina Schlacher reveal a new function for the breast cancer tumor suppressor BRCA2: in addition to repairing DNA damage, it prevents breaks from occu...
