Emer Marguire, from Queen's University Belfast with "Why Do We Kiss? The Science of Smooching" - a three minute pitch from the FameLab Northern Ireland Final, an international science compe...
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...
POMC Neuron Heterogeneity - POMC neurons of hypothalamic arcuate nucleus regulate food intake, energy homeostasis and glucose metabolism. Joel Elmquist and colleagues describe their new work that prov...
In this video, Tsai and colleagues summarize the current state of knowledge about how DNA damage and changes to the DNA damage response in neurons might underlie neurodegenerative disorders. For more ...
Pericyte Control of Neurovascular Function - Pericytes are known to play a key role in the development of cerebral microcirculation but their function in the adult brain and during aging is not clear....
Personalized Nutrition/ Cell November 19, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 5)
Personalized Nutrition/ Cell November 19, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 5) - Doctors and nutrition specialists keep telling us what foods are good and bad for our metabolism and health. But does it work for e...
Molecular Structure of β-Amyloid Fibrils in Alzheimer's Disease Brain Tissue
Robert Tycko and colleagues find that amyloid fibrils derived from AD patient brain tissue reveal a single predominant structure within a patient sample but with key differences between samples, raisi...
This video is of the model furrow formation, which captures the lengthening and shortening dynamics that are observed in vivo. The color bar shows the forces that are active in the model furrow....
Endocytosis Promotes Dendrite Growth - Cheng-Ting Chien and colleagues explore the mechanisms underlying dendrite extension in Drosophila and find that Nak, a clathrin adaptor-associated kinase, promo...
Rethinking Embryonic Germ Layers - Elena Tzouanacou and Val Wilson discuss their interests in mammalian cell lineages and how they came to identify one such lineage that violates a strict assumption o...
DISC1 knockdown leads to behavioral deficits - Watch and listen as Akira Sawa and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their findings that transient knockdown of DISC1, a genetic suscept...
Social jetlag and its consequences. Why are most people in industrialized societies so tired? The reason lies in an increasing discrepancy between our body clocks' internal time and the social demands...
