Training Away Distractibility - Jyoti Mishra & Adam Gazzaley at UCSF discuss the motivation, approach, findings, applications, and broader implications of their new study published in Neuron, &quo...
Previous genome-wide association studies identified CD33 as a Alzheimer's disease risk gene. Through examination of human samples and mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, Griciuc et al. uncover a nove...
Endoderm formation: not so black and white anymore
Endoderm formation: not so black and white anymore - Dr. Hadjantonakis discusses the work of her group on using live imaging approaches coupled with genetic labeling in the mouse embryo to uncover the...
CONVERSATIONS IN THE BRAIN: How neural progenitor cells control their own fate
Neurogenesis relies on a delicate balance between progenitor maintenance and neuronal production. Oscar Marin and colleagues find that the Robo1 and Robo2 receptors and their Slit protein ligands, kno...
Synaptic Competition Shapes Neuronal Dendrites. Intra-neuronal Competition for Synaptic Partners Conserves the Amount of Dendritic Building Material. Brain development requires correct targeting of mu...
Figure360: Trends in Parasitology, Hopkins et al., Figure 2
Defensive Symbionts Mediate Host–Parasite Interactions at Multiple Scales. In protection mutualisms, defensive symbionts protect their hosts from natural enemies, including parasites. Protection mutua...
Neurexin-Neuroligin Function in Dendritogenesis - The cell adhesion molecules neurexin and neuroligin play a central role in synaptogenesis. In this video abstract, Kurt Haas and Simon Chen take you o...
Randall Halfmann and colleagues question how budding yeast can acquire multicellular growth forms in response to their environment. The authors describe their work to show that the Mot3 transcription ...
Friedhelm Hildebrandt describes how whole-exome resequencing of individuals with ciliopathies reveals mutations in DNA damage response genes, suggesting new pathogenic mechanisms behind this class of ...
The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior. Catherine Dulac speaks about “The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender h...
