The function of hippocampal area CA2 has remained unclear for over 75 years. Watch and listen as Steve Siegelbaum and Vivien Chevaleyre take you on a persona......
TIBS Science & Society: Multimedia for grant applications
Multimedia: a necessary step in the evolution of research funding applications by and featuring authors Mike Doran and Bill Lott.Multimedia communication capabilities are rapidly expanding, and visual...
A Designer AAV Variant Permits Efficient Retrograde Access to Projection Neurons. Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons for the delivery of sensors and effectors constitutes an important a...
Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Yale University describe a new optical method to simultaneously record neuronal activity across all layers of the cerebral cortex -- in a beha...
As part of the Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Initiative, Rollins College Biology Professor Dr. Kathryn Sutherland led a dive expedition to discover the presence of White Pox on coral reefs of...
Scar in the Gut/ Cell, Oct. 8, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 2)
Scar in the Gut/ Cell, Oct. 8, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 2) - Yasmine Belkaid and her colleagues at NIH in their recent Cell paper show that a single episode of acute gut infection will cause an "imm...
Imaging Clock Oscillations in the Mouse Embryo - The periodic, anteriorly traveling waves of cyclic gene expression can be seen in the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) of a transgenic mouse embryo. The trans...
Michael Halassa and colleagues describe how brain circuits can shift between processing information from two distinct sources: external stimuli and internally generated constructs....
Fungi share genes - In addition to inheritance, species can acquire genes through a process called horizontal gene transfer in which DNA is transferred between separate lineages. In this video abstrac...
Andy Dillin and colleagues show that, in the nematode worm C. elegans, activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) regulator XBP-1 in neurons produces a signal that stimulates UPR in intestinal ...
The clustering of regulatory elements within a gene desert provides an evolutionary palette for the development of fingers and toes, explains Denis Duboule....