Another Reason to Eat Your Veggies - Lymphocytes depend on a compound in broccoli to survive in the gut and fight infections, explains Marc Veldhoen....
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,...
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...
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...
Human Mutation - Yuehua Zhang, Liping Wei, and colleagues
Amplicon Resequencing Identified Parental Mosaicism for Approximately 10% of “de novo” SCN1A Mutations in Children with Dravet Syndrome. The majority of children with Dravet syndrome (DS) are caused b...
Nucleosomal Elements that Control the Topography of the Barrier to Transcription
Carlos Bustamante and colleagues explain how different nucleosomal components combine together to create physical impediments to transcription that RNA Pol II must overcome in order to successfully tr...
New and Distinct Hippocampal Place Codes Are Generated Without Grid Cell Inputs
New and Distinct Hippocampal Place Codes Are Generated Without Grid Cell Inputs. This Neuron video abstract describes an experiment that used inactivation of the medial septal area to suppress the spa...
miRNA, Notch, and Amygdala-Dependent Fear Learning
In this video, Dias et al. summarize data that shows that a microRNA in the amygdala (miR-34a) regulates Notch signaling after auditory fear conditioning. Their work makes a case for this interaction ...
Mapping Chromosome Organization 1 by 1/ Cell, Sept. 24, 2015 (Vol.163, Issue 1) - A Cell paper published by Bas van Steensel of Netherlands Cancer Institute and his colleagues reports an exciting new ...
Abstract Category Learning - The classification of diverse experiences into useful categories is important for recognizing and interpreting new experiences. Earl Miller and colleagues examine this pro...
