NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation
NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation - How does the brain form habits? Joe Tsien and colleagues explore the cellular mechanisms underlying habit formation and find that NMDA receptors ...
Extrinsic Cues in Neuronal Polarity - Is the site of axon emergence determined by intrinsic neuronal polarity or the local environment? Bill Harris and colleagues have found that laminin at the basal ...
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...
The function of hippocampal area CA2 has remained unclear for over 75 years. Watch and listen as Steve Siegelbaum and Vivien Chevaleyre take you on a persona......
Sex and the Struggle for Existence - David Clapham speaks about “Sex and the Struggle for Existence” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on ...
Where and How Is Motor Memory Stored?/Cell October 27, 2016 (Vol. 167, Issue 4)
Where and How Is Motor Memory Stored?/Cell October 27, 2016 (Vol. 167, Issue 4) - Have you ever wondered why you lost appetite when sick? Maybe it is your body's way to tell you not to eat certain foo...
Keeping Gray Hairs at Bay, Wnt Coordinates Color with Growth
Keeping Gray Hairs at Bay, Wnt Coordinates Color with Growth - How does blonde hair stay blonde? Here, Ito and colleagues explain how Wnt signaling synchronizes two populations of stem cells in the ha...
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure - Patrik Verstreken and co-authors find that in addition to acetylating histones in the nucleus, the histone acetyl-transferase ELP3 plays a rol...
Meiotic Nuclear Oscillations Are Necessary to Avoid Excessive Chromosome Associations. Pairing of homologous chromosomes is a crucial step in meiosis, which in fission yeast depends on nuclear oscilla...
