A nitrate sensor for plants - Sensing changes in soil ion concentration is essential for plants to survive and to sustain maximal growth. Ion sensors had not been identified in higher plants, but now ...
How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 19, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3)
How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 19, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3) . Navigating ants align their body forward to recognize the familiar visual scene and correct their travel direc...
Handegard et al. develop a technique based on high-frequency sonar to track fine-scale predator-prey interactions. They use this technique in the field to quantify information transfer and collective ...
Cancers Chew the Fat - Tumors undergo metabolic changes associated with increased malignancy. Watch and listen as Ben Cravatt and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their findings that...
The Bacterial Effector VopL Organizes Actin into Filament-like Structures
Michael Rosen and colleagues find that a pathogen effector protein assembles actin filaments through the collaborative action of an organizing domain that templates filament structure through both low...
