Song-Hai Shi explains how clonally related excitatory neurons in the hippocampus are progressively organized into discrete horizontal clusters and receive common synaptic inputs from nearby fast-spiki...
TRPA1 Gain of Function Linked to Human Pain - Mutations in ion channels underlie multiple neurological disorders, including pathological pain states. Although previous work with knock-out mice has sug...
The Synaptic Transcriptome - Using deep sequencing to identify mRNAs near the synapse, Erin Schuman and colleagues find that local translation at the synapse may be much more widespread than previousl...
Excess Membrane Synthesis Drives a Primitive Mode of Cell Proliferation
Jeff Errington and colleagues discover that increased membrane surface area, a simple biophysical change, in wild-type protoplasts drives L-form-like division, providing a model for evolution of early...
Why Scratching an Itch Makes You Itch More - Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen’s team explains why scratching make you itch more. You scratch an itch to cause minor pain, which prompts the brain to release serotonin...
Nematode escape from fungal traps - Predator-prey interactions shape the evolution of escape behaviors. Here, Mark Alkema and Chris Clark explain how the "model" nematode Caenorhabditis eleg...
Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication
Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication - Bazelot et al. dissect synaptic mechanisms orchestrating the information flow from the ventral hippocampus to the amygdala, two regions of the li...
Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start - Joanne Kamens speaks about “Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gen...
In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...
