Intact Mirror Neuron Function in Autism - It has been proposed that dysfunction of the mirror neuron system may underlie the social difficulties associated with autism. Watch and listen as Ilan Dinste...
Neocortex Recycles Olfactory Cajal-Retzius Cells - The neocortex undergoes extensive developmental growth, but how its architecture adapts to expansion remains largely unknown. Here, we investigated h...
Orchestrated amplification and differentiation of intermediate progenitors governs the evolutionary expansion of the cerebral cortex. Fang et al. report that Axin serves as a master scaffold that dete...
Prefrontal Cortex, Limbic System, and High Performance
Controlling habit formation is a key medical need and a desirable feature of thoughtful behavior when habits could be harmful. This video describes optogenetic manipulations that rendered rats impervi...
Sonic Hedgehog Directs Cortical Circuit Formation - Sonic Hedgehog is one of the most widely studied molecules in developmental biology, with critical functions in tissue patterning, and proliferation...
John McCutcheon and colleagues show that, in some cicada species, a three-way symbiosis involving one insect and two bacterial symbionts has resulted in a four-way assemblage through an unusual bacter...
Getting Paid What You're Worth. Evelyn Murphy speaks about “How to get paid what you’re worth” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on Thursd...
Not miRly a Knockout - Drs. Wang and Olson discuss their work on miR-129, as well as the general idea that gene loci encoding both a protein and an intronic microRNA commonly share regulated expressio...
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Prediction and Evaluation of Behavioral Outcomes
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Prediction and Evaluation of Behavioral Outcomes - The orbitofrontal cortex has long been associated with concepts like impulsivity, self-control, and emotion regulation. Here we...
Ocean 180 - The Harp Sponge: An extraordinary new species of carnivorous sponge. n this video we describe a new species of carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra from the deep-sea off California. It i...
PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution
PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution -- Created by Naoki Yamaji and Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan). Read the related Review in Trends in Plant Science here http...
