Ocean 180 - Sponges of the Caribbean: What ecological factors most affect them? Sponges are animals that eat tiny food particles as they pump water through their bodies. They are very common on Caribb...
Scattering of Cell Clusters in Confinement - Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) enables scattering of cell clusters and disseminates motile cells to distant locations in vivo during embryonic ...
Protons Away for Sperm Activation! - Human sperm are activated to swim more vigorously once they enter the female reproductive tract. Watch and listen as Lishko and Kirichok take you on a brief, pers...
Feeding despite Immediate Metabolic Need - Christian Lüscher and Eoin O’Connor describe research that has investigated the role of inhibitory output from the nucleus accumbens shell to the lateral hyp...
Tryptophan Biosynthesis Protects Mycobacteria from CD4 T-Cell-Mediated Killing
Eric Rubin and colleagues describe how tuberculosis bacteria undergo metabolic adaptation to survive attempts by CD4 T cells to starve them of tryptophan. They identify a small-molecule inhibitor of t...
Dolphins sometimes need pain medications just like people do, but no one has ever looked at how pain medications work in a dolphin’s body before. We gave ten bottlenose dolphins a dose of meloxicam, a...
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...
