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...
Mengingitis Breaks the Blood-Brain Barrier. But how?
Mengingitis Breaks the Blood-Brain Barrier. But how? - Stefano Marullo and colleagues explain how meningococcus hijacks a beta-arrestin signaling cascade to open gaps and slip right through intercellu...
Fish Biodiversity Loss in a High-CO2 World/ Curr. Biol., Jul. 6, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 14)
Fish Biodiversity Loss in a High-CO2 World. Nagelkerken et al. (University of Adelaide) show that ocean acidification can reduce fish biodiversity. This is due to the indirect effects of elevated CO2 ...
Antibiotic Adjuvants / Trends in Microbiology October 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 10)
Antibiotic Adjuvants / Trends in Microbiology October 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 10) - Rooted in the mechanism of action of antibiotics and subject to bacterial evolution, antibiotic resistance is difficult ...
How Curiosity Changes the Brain and Enhances Learning
Charan Ranganath and Matthias Gruber summarize their findings that demonstrate that curiosity changes brain activity within the dopaminergic circuit. Further......
Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Weber et al., Figure 1
Figure360: Trends in Plant Science, Weber et al., Higher eukaryotes typically contain many different cell types, displaying different cellular functions that are influenced by biotic and abiotic cues....
Andy Dillin and colleagues show that, in the nematode worm C. elegans, activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) regulator XBP-1 in neurons produces a signal that stimulates UPR in intestinal ...
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...
A Gene-by-Gene Guide to a Complex Organ - The complexity of organ development is an untapped resource for systems-wide mapping of genetic networks. Now, Karen Oegema and coworkers combine genomics tec...