Synapse Number Regulates Alcohol Sensitivity - Alcohol-related problems are associated with reduced sensitivity to alcohol. Eddison et al. find that arouser (aru), a predicted adaptor protein, functio...
Meditative Tone with Binaural Beats and Water Sounds
Hair cells are the primary receptor cells for sound and are responsible for our sense of hearing. Hair cells do not normally regenerate after damage and their loss is a major cause of deafness. We sho...
Synaptic Pruning in the Developing Nervous System - Using light and serial electron microscopy, Jeff Lichtman and colleagues assessed the how axonal branching and synaptic connectivity change with dev...
Epigenetics and the influence of our genes | Courtney Griffins | TEDxOU
Erica Watson and colleagues find that genetic deficiency in folate metabolism in maternal grandparents affects development of their wild-type grandprogeny, even if the mothers are also wild-type....
Rachel Dutton and colleagues describe how analysis of microbes residing on different types of cheese across the world can provide insight into microbial communities' assembly and function....
Prediction Enhances Olfactory Processing - The ability to predict sensory events before they occur helps an organism navigate a complex world. To provide greater insight into how predictive coding is ...
Excess Membrane Synthesis Drives a Primitive Mode of Cell Proliferation
Jeff Errington and colleagues discover that increased membrane surface area, a simple biophysical change, in wild-type protoplasts drives L-form-like division, providing a model for evolution of early...
Endoderm Formation: Not So Black and White Anymore
Endoderm Formation: Not So Black and White Anymore - Dr. Hadjantonakis discusses the work of her group on using live-imaging approaches coupled with genetic labeling in the mouse embryo to uncover the...
Node Assembly & Maintenance - How do nodes of Ranvier assemble? Jim Salzer and colleagues find that node assembly is initiated by redistribution of mobile, surface pools of axonal adhesion molecul...