Membranes Use Actin in a Pinch - Endocytosis requires invagination and scission of membranes. Watch and listen as Ludger Johannes and colleagues take you on a brief, personally guided tour of their f...
Sabrina Dumas' project on "The Role Lipids Play in GLUT1 Function." The University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) is an educational program designed to teach stud...
Triangulating the Bases of Guilt Aversion - Why do we cooperate when it's in our best interest to be selfish? Alan Sanfey and colleagues explore whether the desire to avoid feeling guilty is a fundam...
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...
F-BAR proteins: Coordinating the effects of actin and dynamin on endocytosis
F-BAR proteins: Coordinating the effects of actin and dynamin on endocytosis - Pietro De Camilli discusses how his group came to define the F-BAR domain and its role in endocytosis, and where subseque...
TIM review on evolutionary interplay between human papillomavirus, a tumor, and a woman
Natalia Shulzhenko and Andrey Morgun discuss their Trends in Microbiology review that proposes a model of cervical carcinogenesis that encompasses interplay between human papillomavirus, a tumor, and ...
Why Evolution is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It (Jerry Coyne, 2012)
Pardis Sabeti and colleagues describe their analysis of human sequence data from the 1000 Genomes Project to reveal hundreds of potential adaptive variants. In a second study, the authors engineered m...
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....
