Bioluminescent millipedes - Bioluminescence is the ability of an organism to generate its own light. Numerous functions have been proposed for the 40 or more independent origins of bioluminescence, fo...
D2 Receptor-DISC1 Complex and Antipsychotic Effects
D2 Receptor-DISC1 Complex and Antipsychotic Effects. Our lab has identified a novel interaction between D2 receptor and DISC1, and this complex was found to be increased in postmortem brain tissues o...
Malaria is transmitted during the blood meal of the Anopheles mosquito, when Plasmodium sporozoites are injected into the skin. In various research projects at the Department for Infectious Diseases a...
Cindy Lee, on her published paper in Human Mutation entitled "Functional Analysis of BARD1 Missense Variants in Homology-Directed Repair of DNA Double Strand Breaks"...
Another Reason to Eat Your Veggies - Lymphocytes depend on a compound in broccoli to survive in the gut and fight infections, explains Marc Veldhoen....
Thalamic Mechanism of Parkinson Disease. Hyper-inhibition of thalamic neurons by the basal ganglia inputs has been proposed as a mechanism for Parkinson's disease. This study shows that rebound firing...
Matthew Bronnimann's project on "An Essential Transmembrane Domain and GxxxG Motifs Within Papillomavirus L2" The University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) is an...
How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? - Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of coll...
Meditative Tone with Binaural Beats and Water Sounds
Hair cells are the primary receptor cells for sound and are responsible for our sense of hearing. Hair cells do not normally regenerate after damage and their loss is a major cause of deafness. We sho...
Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown and Cognitive Impairment in Humans
Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown and Cognitive Impairment in Humans - By imaging the living human brain, Montagne et al. show an age-dependent blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown in the hippocampus, a re...
How Does the Octopus Prevent Arm-to-Arm Interference?
Each of the eight long and flexible arms of the octopus is equipped with two rows of hundreds of suckers. This video from Nesher et al. shows that these suckers have a reflexive tendency to stick them...
