Multiple Roles for Oligophrenin at the Synapse

Multiple Roles for Oligophrenin at the Synapse - Linda Van Aelst and colleagues discover that the X-linked mental retardation protein OPHN1, known for its role in modulating basal synaptic strength, i...

Translating Dietary Restriction into Long Life

Translating Dietary Restriction into Long Life - It is known for many species that severely restricting the number of calories an organism consumes increases its lifespan, but the molecular underpinni...

What Happens when You Rinse?

What Happens when You Rinse? ...

A Conserved Dedicated Olfactory Circuit for Detecting Harmful Microbes in Drosophila

Marcus Stensmyr and colleagues explain how they discovered a brain circuit that signals disgust to rotten food in fruit flies, helping the flies to sniff out and avoid harmful environments....

New Model for Autism Treatment

New Model for Autism Treatment - Daniel Geschwind and Olga Penagarikano unveil a mouse model with striking similarities to human autism, providing a promising test platform for future therapies....

Science in Action: Philippine Deep Sea Expedition | California Academy of Sciences

Science in Action: Philippine Deep Sea Expedition | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Olfaction Controls Social Preference via Brain Plasticity

Olfaction Controls Social Preference via Brain Plasticity ...

Spectrally Resolved Multi-color Fiber Photometry

(1) Spectrally Resolved Multi-color Fiber Photometry ...

Controlling interneuron migration in the cortex

Controlling interneuron migration in the cortex ...

Double Fock superposition interferometry for differential diagnosis of decoherence

Double Fock superposition interferometry for differential diagnosis of decoherence - YouTube...

Gaussian Curvature Directs Stress Fiber Orientation and Cell Migration

Gaussian Curvature Directs Stress Fiber Orientation and Cell Migration ...

Fish Biodiversity Loss in a High-CO2 World/ Curr. Biol., Jul. 6, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 14)

Fish Biodiversity Loss in a High-CO2 World. Nagelkerken et al. (University of Adelaide) show that ocean acidification can reduce fish biodiversity. This is due to the indirect effects of elevated CO2 ...

Jin et al. Featured movie

Jin et al. present HEMNMA method that allows more extensive analyses of gradual conformational changes in large macromolecular complexes from electron microscopy images. The featured movie captures an...

ABeta Peptides Inhibit Synapse Assembly by NgR Signaling

ABeta Peptides Inhibit Synapse Assembly by NgR Signaling...

Sulfur for a Long Life

Sulfur for a Long Life - James Mitchell and colleagues describe how dietary restriction prolongs life through the action of endogenously produced hydrogen sulfite....

Vitamin D Lends a Hand to Chemo

Ronald Evans and colleagues show that activation of the vitamin D receptor sensitizes the stroma of pancreatic cancers to conventional chemotherapy, boosting its efficacy and survival rates....

Listeria monocytogenes in Mouse Ileal Tissue

Listeria monocytogenes in Mouse Ileal Tissue ...

Forward and Reverse Waves: Modeling Distortion Products in the Intracochlear Fluid Pressure

Forward and Reverse Waves: Modeling Distortion Products in the Intracochlear Fluid Pressure - YouTube...

Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo

Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo - Tetsuya Nakamura discusses the role of a Nodal-Lefty-based reaction-diffusion system in generating left-right asymmetry in the mouse...

miRNA Decoy in Tumor Suppression

miRNA Decoy in Tumor Suppression - miRNAs are known to downregulate target mRNAs by complementary base pairing, but there's more to the story. Watch and listen as Danilo Perrotti and Anna Eiring take ...