Shedding Light on HCN Channel Gating - The mechanism underlying HCN channel activation, including the relative contributions of membrane voltage and the ligand cAMP, is unknown. Klaus Benndorf and col...
Portabella: A New Player in Neurotransmission - David Krantz and colleagues report the discovery of portabella, a Drosophila gene that is structurally similar to known vesicular transporters and is ex...
Multisensory Plasticity in Mothers - How do the physiological changes associated with motherhood influence sensory processing within the mother's brain? In this study, Adi Mizrahi and colleagues find ...
Pericyte Control of Neurovascular Function - Pericytes are known to play a key role in the development of cerebral microcirculation but their function in the adult brain and during aging is not clear....
The Heart as a Metabolic Organ - Eric Olson describes how a drug designed to treat cardiac disease reveals an unexpected role for the heart in whole-body energy homeostasis....
Building Stem Cell Niches from Scratch - Thomas Boehm and Lesly Calderón decode the rules of stem cell recruitment by reverse engineering the thymic niche....
Sex and the Struggle for Existence - David Clapham speaks about “Sex and the Struggle for Existence” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on ...
