Novel Mode of Soft-Bodied Motion - Most of us have surely seen the slow and gravity-defying crawl of a caterpillar, with that wave of motion that passes over their elongated and flexible bodies. But i...
Dopamine: Motivation, Salience and Learning - A Genetic Perspective
Decision making is impacted by risk. Masaaki Ogawa and colleagues in the laboratory of Geoffrey Schoenbaum find that activity of risk-responsive neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex track salience bett...
Epigenetics and the influence of our genes | Courtney Griffins | TEDxOU
Erica Watson and colleagues find that genetic deficiency in folate metabolism in maternal grandparents affects development of their wild-type grandprogeny, even if the mothers are also wild-type....
Microbiome and Malaria - Miguel Soares describes how gut bacteria carrying a specific glycan residue can elicit antibodies in humans to an epitope found on malaria parasites and hence potentially conf...
Nels Elde describes how poxviruses utilize gene "accordions" to increase the sampling potential for mutations in a small number of genes, revealing a new mode of virus adaptation....
