Malaria is transmitted during the blood meal of the Anopheles mosquito, when Plasmodium sporozoites are injected into the skin. In various research projects at the Department for Infectious Diseases a...
In this study, Muto et al. visualized brain activity of a zebrafish larva while it visually perceived a swimming paramecium. This study demonstrates that the visual world is indeed mapped onto a part ...
Sonic Hedgehog Directs Cortical Circuit Formation - Sonic Hedgehog is one of the most widely studied molecules in developmental biology, with critical functions in tissue patterning, and proliferation...
Argonaute Decoy Breaks the Silence - Argonaute proteins silence gene expression by binding small RNAs. Now, Xiuren Zhang and colleagues discover that AGO10 in plants achieves the opposite effect: it b...
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors. In this study, Kim and Zhang et al. dissect a genetically defined circuit for appetitive behaviors from the basolateral amygda...
Aneuploidy via Telomere Attrition - Telomere dysfunction and aneuploidy are both common features of cancer cells. But are they causally linked? Watch and listen as Titia de Lange and Teresa Davoli tak...
Myc and Multiple Myeloma: Drugging the Undruggable
Myc and Multiple Myeloma: Drugging the Undruggable - Reporting a new small-molecule inhibitor of chromatin-binding bromodomains, James Bradner and Constantine Mitsiades offer a back-door route to bloc...
