In this video, Drs. Christopher Cowan and Laura Smith describe how the protein that is missing in Fragile X syndrome, FMRP, normally controls behavioral and synaptic responses to cocaine exposure. Wit...
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5)
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5) - In this video and the accompanying Cell paper, the Tony Hyman and Simon Alberti groups at Max Planck Institute propose an intere...
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...
Th17 Cells in Autoimmune Disease/ Cell -- Single-cell RNA-seq coupled to a new functional annotation approach identifies distinct functional states of Th17 cells and the underlying molecular mechanism...
Cues for Synapse Formation - The external cues that dictate synapse assembly are not well understood. Watch David Ginty and colleagues describe their findings that NGF plays a critical role in determi...
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 ...
