Wnts come in small packages - Wnts are signaling molecules important for development and neuronal functions. Watch and listen as Vivian Budnik and her colleagues take you on a brief personally guided...
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...
Independent Encoding of Spatial and Nonspatial Factors in Parietal Cortex
David Freedman and Chris Rishel discuss their work examining the RELATIONSHIP between spatial and non-spatial cognitive signals in posterior parietal cortex. During performance of a visual categorizat...
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...
Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, May 4, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 5)
Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, (Vol. 169, Issue 5) . Billions of blood cells die every day and need to be replaced by new ones. In this video, Andreas Trumpp shows that Vitamin A is a key si...
Open-and-Shut Case for Ion Channels - K+ channels undergo conformational changes to switch conduction on and off. Watch and listen as Jacqui Gulbis and colleagues take you on a brief personalized tour...
Human Owls, Larks, and Sports Performance - The circadian body clock plays an important role in the determination of performance in athletes. Human larks perform better earlier in the day, while human...
Membranes Use Actin in a Pinch - Endocytosis requires invagination and scission of membranes. Watch and listen as Ludger Johannes and colleagues take you on a brief, personally guided tour of their f...
In this video, Josselyn and colleagues summarize their findings on how neurons are chosen (or allocated) to be part of a memory engram. For more information, see Yiu, Mercaldo et al., Neuron 83(3), ht...
Love? Oxytocin, Actually. Nathaniel Heintz and colleagues describe how a population of interneurons in the brain prefrontal cortex, responding to the hormone oxytocin, regulates females’ interest for ...
The Temporal Sequence of the Mammalian Neocortical Neurogenetic Program Drives Mediolateral Pattern in the Chick Pallium. The six-layered neocortex permits complex information processing in all mammal...
Homologous chromosomes find each other and align correctly during meiosis with the help of the cytoskeleton, new work by Dernburg and colleagues shows. Watch......
Scattering of Cell Clusters in Confinement - Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) enables scattering of cell clusters and disseminates motile cells to distant locations in vivo during embryonic ...
