The retrieval of previously formed memory triggers the lability of that memory for a short time and its reconsolidation. However, what exactly triggers memory reconsolidation is not known. Here, Diaz-...
Fatal Attraction: Why Are Flies Drawn to Ultraviolet Light Bug Zappers?
Many animals innately prefer particular wavelengths of light. By genetic dissection of visual circuits, we identified a hard-wired pooling circuit that mediates spectral preference in fruit flies. For...
Why don't we all get Alzheimer's disease? Roy and colleagues stumbled on a possible reason why we all don't get Alzheimer's disease even though we all have the basic ingredients essential for getting ...
Cascade Defense Tactics/Cell, Oct. 29, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 4) - CRISPR defends bacteria against viral invasion by recognizing the viral DNA sequence. What if virus mutates the sequence? The paper by...
PLANTS review on Improving Water-Use Efficiency in Plants
Created by and featuring author John C. Cushman.
Read the Review article in the May 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1fnhyA7. You can also read a short interview with the author ...
The Role of RNA Binding Protein hnRNP A2/B1 in ALS
The Role of RNA Binding Protein hnRNP A2/B1 in ALS - What goes wrong during the devastating disease ALS? Gene Yeo, Fernando Martinez, and colleagues from across the country uncover the role of RNA bin...
Mapping Chromosome Organization 1 by 1/ Cell, Sept. 24, 2015 (Vol.163, Issue 1) - A Cell paper published by Bas van Steensel of Netherlands Cancer Institute and his colleagues reports an exciting new ...
TRPA1 Gain of Function Linked to Human Pain - Mutations in ion channels underlie multiple neurological disorders, including pathological pain states. Although previous work with knock-out mice has sug...
