PINK1/Parkin derails damaged mitochondria

PINK1/Parkin Derails Damaged Mitochondria -Thomas Schwarz shows how Parkinson's disease proteins quarantine damaged mitochondria by disconnecting them from the microtubule network....

Hippo Signaling Regulates Microprocessor and Links Cell-Density-Dependent miRNA Biogenesis to Cancer

Richard Gregory and colleagues reveal that the Hippo-signaling pathway and its downstream target YAP regulate miRNA biogenesis in a cell-density-dependent manner, which may be responsible for the wide...

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....

Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo

Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo - YouTube...

Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, May 4, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 5)

Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, (Vol. 169, Issue 5) . Billions of blood cells die every day and need to be replaced by new ones. In this video, Andreas Trumpp shows that Vitamin A is a key si...

Cell Surface Topography Is a Regulator of Molecular Interactions

A neutrophil labeled with Alexa-488-conjugated anti-L-selectin spreads onto and engulfs an IL-8-coated glass bead in bright field, epifluorescence, and TIRFM. See the paper by Lomakina et al. in the S...

Explosive formation and dynamics of vapor nanobubbles around a continuously heated gold nanosphere

Explosive formation and dynamics of vapor nanobubbles around a continuously heated gold nanosphere - YouTube...

Spatially Organized β-Cell Subpopulations Control Electrical Dynamics across Islets of Langerhans

Spatially Organized β-Cell Subpopulations Control Electrical Dynamics across Islets of Langerhans ...

A Novel Analgesic Isolated from a Traditional Chinese Medicine

Research conducted through a collaboration between scientists at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has identified a compound within the plant Corydal...

Fatal Attraction: Why Are Flies Drawn to Ultraviolet Light Bug Zappers?

Many animals innately prefer particular wavelengths of light. By genetic dissection of visual circuits, we identified a hard-wired pooling circuit that mediates spectral preference in fruit flies. For...

Targeting Sepiapterin Reductase to Treat Neuropathic Pain

Targeting Sepiapterin Reductase to Treat Neuropathic Pain - YouTube...

Synaptic Competition Shapes Neuronal Dendrites

Synaptic Competition Shapes Neuronal Dendrites. Intra-neuronal Competition for Synaptic Partners Conserves the Amount of Dendritic Building Material. Brain development requires correct targeting of mu...

Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Chung et al., Figure 1

Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Jiang et al., Figure 1 - YouTube...

Shinya Yamanaka Announces Stem Cell Reports

Shinya Yamanaka Announces Stem Cell Reports ...

Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Dunbar, Figure 5

Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Dunbar. Biotechnology could provide many innovative alternatives for changing the way metals are obtained. Microbes have been used to dissolve metallic minerals and...

Centrosome size and function in nematode embryos

Centrosome size and function in nematode embryos ...

Fungi share genes

Fungi share genes - In addition to inheritance, species can acquire genes through a process called horizontal gene transfer in which DNA is transferred between separate lineages. In this video abstrac...

Science in Action: Islands, Birds, and Disease | California Academy of Sciences

Science in Action: Islands, Birds, and Disease | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

PLANTS Opinon on Effector-triggered defence against apoplastic fungal pathogens

Effector-triggered defence against apoplastic fungal pathogens - Created by Bruce D.L. Fitt and colleagues (University of Hertfordshire). Read the related Opinion article in Trends in Plant Science he...

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...