Meg Lowman: An Amazing View of Earth | California Academy of Sciences

Meg Lowman: An Amazing View of Earth | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

MAP2 Is Recruited to Stationary and Moving Rab6 Vesicles in the Presence of KIF5

MAP2 Is Recruited to Stationary and Moving Rab6 Vesicles in the Presence of KIF5 ...

Depolarized Subicular Microcircuits in Epilepsy

Depolarized Subicular Microcircuits in Epilepsy. The subiculum is crucially involved in spreading and generalizing hippocampal seizures. Wang et al. demonstrated depolarized GABAergic signaling caused...

Zeroing in on Repetitive Behaviors

Zeroing in on Repetitive Behaviors. Thomas Südhof and colleagues reveal that neuroligin-3 mutations enhance repetitive behaviors similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorders by selectively affec...

Long-Term Synaptic Depression Triggered by Microglia

Zhang et al. discovered that microglial cells sense inflammatory stimuli and hypoxia in the brain via complement receptor 3 and produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) by NADPH oxidase. The diffusion of...

Network Organization of the Human Brain

Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...

How Does the Tumor Microenvironment Fuel Relapses after Chemotherapy?

How Does the Tumor Microenvironment Fuel Relapses after Chemotherapy? - Mike Hemann and Luke Gilbert explain how a chemoprotective niche in the thymus helps cancer cells hide out during treatment....

TIM review on reverse zoonosis of influenza to swine

TIM review on reverse zoonosis of influenza to swine - YouTube...

Alpha Helix to Beta Barrel Switch Transforms Transcription Factor RfaH to Translation Factor

Alpha Helix to Beta Barrel Switch Transforms Transcription Factor RfaH to Translation Factor. Paul Rösch describes the remarkable transformation of a transcription factor into a translation factor th...

Evolution of Ultrafast Snapping Claws/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 28, 2017 (Vol. 28, Issue 1)

Evolution of Ultrafast Snapping Claws/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 28, 2017 (Vol. 28, Issue 1) ...

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Children with dyslexia have less brain activity underlying visual motion in area V5/MT compared to controls of the same age; however, this difference does not emerge when the dyslexics are compared to...

Gravity Visualized

Human Mutation - Ninad Oak and colleagues ...

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Martha Giraldo, a research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology, was recently recognized for her innovative use of electronic media in her doctoral dissertation. She is one of three recipien...

Non-nuclear Splicing Factors Shape Axons during Motor Development

Non-nuclear Splicing Factors Shape Axons during Motor Development. The splicing factor SFPQ, known for its nuclear functions, is shown here to also act outside of the nucleus in developing motor axons...

Translating Dietary Restriction into Long Life

Translating Dietary Restriction into Long Life - It is known for many species that severely restricting the number of calories an organism consumes increases its lifespan, but the molecular underpinni...

Visual control of octopus arm movements

Visual control of octopus arm movements - Octopuses are known among invertebrates for their sophisticated behavior and the task they face of controlling eight flexible arms is a daunting one. As expla...

Sensing Temperature Changes on the Fly

Sensing Temperature Changes on the Fly ...

Endophilin beyond Endocytosis

Endophilin beyond Endocytosis - Endophilin A1 is known to play a role in the endocytosis of synaptic vesicles. Now, Christian Rosenmund and colleagues find that it contributes to synaptic vesicle exoc...

Drosophila CNS Glutamate Receptors Break the Rules

Using structural and electrophysiological techniques Li, Dharkar et al. find that Drosophila CNS glutamate receptors have unexpected ligand selectivity. The kainate receptor DKaiR1D is inhibited by NM...

How the Brain Helps to Choose between Eating Fat or Carbs

How the Brain Helps to Choose between Eating Fat or Carbs - YouTube...