During childhood and adolescence, humans show marked variation in biological and psychological measures of maturity at a given age. At the level of individual features, brain anatomy reflects these hi...
Novel Mode of Soft-Bodied Motion - Most of us have surely seen the slow and gravity-defying crawl of a caterpillar, with that wave of motion that passes over their elongated and flexible bodies. But i...
Friedhelm Hildebrandt describes how whole-exome resequencing of individuals with ciliopathies reveals mutations in DNA damage response genes, suggesting new pathogenic mechanisms behind this class of ...
Combinatorial Genetic Targeting of GABAergic Neurons
Combinatorial Genetic Targeting of GABAergic Neurons - Article: Strategies and Tools for Combinatorial Targeting of GABAergic Neurons in Mouse Cerebral Cortex
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Molecular Structure of β-Amyloid Fibrils in Alzheimer's Disease Brain Tissue
Robert Tycko and colleagues find that amyloid fibrils derived from AD patient brain tissue reveal a single predominant structure within a patient sample but with key differences between samples, raisi...
Connecting Parkinson's Disease Gene Functions - This video describes the identification of functional interactions between Parkinson's disease genes VPS35, EIF4G1, and alpha-synuclein. Aaron Gitler an...