This video shows rats choosing sequentially from four distinct trajectories in a maze while we record neural activity from hippocampus and cingulate cortex. Analyses of such neural activity led us to ...
Building Stem Cell Niches from Scratch - Thomas Boehm and Lesly Calderón decode the rules of stem cell recruitment by reverse engineering the thymic niche....
In this video abstract, the authors discuss their article "The Evolution of Epigenetics: from Prokaryotes to Humans and its Biological Consequences", recently published in Genetics & Epi...
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...
Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior. This study shows the role of secondary metabolites in ripe fruits in shaping plant-animal interactions, not only by directly deterring seed predators but also b...
Evolution of transcription factor families - Expansion of transcription factor families correlates with organism complexity. Dr. Marian Walhout and her colleagues have carried out a large-scale syste...
Ocean 180 - Sponges of the Caribbean: What ecological factors most affect them? Sponges are animals that eat tiny food particles as they pump water through their bodies. They are very common on Caribb...
