Randall Halfmann and colleagues question how budding yeast can acquire multicellular growth forms in response to their environment. The authors describe their work to show that the Mot3 transcription ...
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...
Video Abstract cjfas-2014-0257 The reaction of a captive herring school to playbacks of a noise...
The reaction of a captive herring school to playbacks of a noise reduced and a conventional research vessel by Nils Olav Handegard, Alex De Robertis, Guillaume Rieucau, Kevin M Boswell, Gavin J. Macau...
Human Mutation - Brianne Kirkpatrick and colleagues
Authors, Brianne Kirkpatrick and colleagues, on their published paper in Human Mutation entitled "GenomeConnect: Matchmaking Between Patients, Clinical Laboratories, and Researchers to Improve Ge...
Glia Take Cannabis to Forget - Xia Zhang and his team show how cannabinoids disrupt memory and reveal that, surprisingly, neurons are not the target....
Fear Signals from Predators - Mice exhibit fear behavior towards predators, or simply predator odors, even without prior exposure to these predators. Watch and listen as Lisa Stowers and Fabio Papes t...
Visual control of octopus arm movements - Octopuses are known among invertebrates for their sophisticated behavior and the task they face of controlling eight flexible arms is a daunting one. As expla...
How Does the Tumor Microenvironment Fuel Relapses after Chemotherapy?
How Does the Tumor Microenvironment Fuel Relapses after Chemotherapy? - Mike Hemann and Luke Gilbert explain how a chemoprotective niche in the thymus helps cancer cells hide out during treatment....
Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior. This study shows the role of secondary metabolites in ripe fruits in shaping plant-animal interactions, not only by directly deterring seed predators but also b...
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11)
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11) - Cyrus Mallon and Joana Salles discuss how microbial invasions follow a universal process of introduction, establishment,...
Brain Shuttle Transports Antibodies into the Brain over the Blood-Brain Barrier
Roche has developed a novel Brain Shuttle technology that transporst antibodies across the blood-brain barrier. This technology has the potential to be used to treat numerous brain diseases. For more ...
Richard Lee, Amy Wagers, and colleagues describe their parabiosis experiments in mice, which helped unravel a role for the TGF-beta family member GDF-11 as a negative regulator of age-associated cardi...
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 ...
