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Plasmodium Sporozoites Form Transient Vacuoles during Cell Traversal

Plasmodium Sporozoites Form Transient Vacuoles during Cell Traversal - Spinning disk confocal microscopy of HepG2 cells expressing a fluorescent marker of the plasma membrane, N20-mCherry, showing egr...

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How Brains Filter Familiar Stimuli: The Negative-Image Model for Habituation

Ramaswami proposes a conceptually simple mechanism by which nervous systems may identify and filter familiar or predicted stimuli. He further discusses the importance of this mechanism for higher cogn...

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Sensing DNA Damage, ATP Orders an Mre11-Rad50 Clamp Down

Sensing DNA Damage, ATP Orders an Mre11-Rad50 Clamp Down - By trapping Mre11-Rad50 in mulitple states, Karl-Peter Hopfner and colleagues discover that Mre11-Rad50 transiently assembles into an ATP-con...

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Conformational Properties of a Moving CENP-E Kinesin Probed with the Tethered Cargo Motion Assay

(1) Conformational Properties of a Moving CENP-E Kinesin Probed with the Tethered Cargo Motion Assay ...

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Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Mittler, Figure 4

Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Mittler, Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are thought to play a dual role in plant biology. They are required for many important signaling reactions, but are also toxi...

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FOXG1 Orchestrates Neocortical Organization and Cortico-cortical Connections

FOXG1 Orchestrates Neocortical Organization and Cortico-cortical Connections ...

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Brain Calcium Controls How Long We Sleep

Brain Calcium Controls How Long We Sleep - YouTube...

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Myosin Shows a Transient Apical Enrichment Prior to Apical Clearing in Wild-Type Neuroblasts

Myosin Shows a Transient Apical Enrichment Prior to Apical Clearing in Wild-Type Neuroblasts ...

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Exploring quasiparticles in high Tc cuprates through photoemission, tunneling, and x ray scattering

Exploring quasiparticles in high Tc cuprates through photoemission, tunneling, and x ray scattering - YouTube...

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FMRP and Cocaine-Induced Plasticity

In this video, Drs. Christopher Cowan and Laura Smith describe how the protein that is missing in Fragile X syndrome, FMRP, normally controls behavioral and synaptic responses to cocaine exposure. Wit...

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Pluripotency Expanded / Cell, April 6, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 2)

Human and mouse pluripotent stem cells can differentiate into all cell types within adult bodies, but they have limited potential to differentiate into extraembryonic tissues such as placenta and yolk...

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Phosphorylation-Regulated Binding of RNA Polymerase II to Fibrous Polymers of Low-Complexity Domains

Steven McKnight and colleagues talk about their latest findings showing that polymeric fibers formed by low-complexity polypeptide domains can fuse to DNA-binding domains and potentiate transcription....

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Sequential and Rhythmic Production of Somites

Sequential and Rhythmic Production of Somites - Illustrated with the developing zebrafish embryo, somitogenesis is a sequential and rhythmic process that subdivides the mesoderm of the vertebrate embr...

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Smartphone Becomes Microscope

Science teachers often struggle to engage young students when their classroom experiences are limited to pre-prepared biological samples viewed through standard microscopes. Mr. Saber Khan, a middle s...

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2012 Three Minute Thesis Runner Up - Billie Ganendran

Billie Ganendran (Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Science, UNSW Canberra), runner-up in the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition, gives her presentation - "The curious mix of peng...

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Confocal time lapse imaging of a developing kidney

(1) Confocal time lapse imaging of a developing kidney ...

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Slime mold phagocytosis

Slime mold phagocytosis ...

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Figure360: Cell, Denny et al., Figure 5

Figure360: Cell, Denny et al., Figure 5 - YouTube...

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Built for Speed: Our Orca Story | California Academy of Sciences

Built for Speed: Our Orca Story | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

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A Zebrafish Genetic Screen Identifies Nmu as a Sleep Regulator

A Zebrafish Genetic Screen Identifies Nmu as a Sleep Regulator - YouTube...

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