Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo
Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo - Tetsuya Nakamura discusses the role of a Nodal-Lefty-based reaction-diffusion system in generating left-right asymmetry in the mouse...
How Legs Were Lost during Snake Evolution/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 20, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Most snakes are completely limbless, but some snakes diverged from the lineage leading to the advanced snake...
Infant calming responses during maternal carrying in humans and mice
Mother-infant bonding is the earliest and most critical social relationship of mammalian infants, one that is promoted by an infant's innate desire to be close to his or her mother (as demonstrated by...
What brain processes underlie memory consolidation? Here, scientists from the MRC BNDU (University of Oxford, UK) test the hypothesis that, in the mouse hippocampus, reactivation of space-representing...
Myc and Multiple Myeloma: Drugging the Undruggable
Myc and Multiple Myeloma: Drugging the Undruggable - Reporting a new small-molecule inhibitor of chromatin-binding bromodomains, James Bradner and Constantine Mitsiades offer a back-door route to bloc...
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...
Jin et al. present HEMNMA method that allows more extensive analyses of gradual conformational changes in large macromolecular complexes from electron microscopy images. The featured movie captures an...