Evolution of transcription factor families

Evolution of transcription factor families - Expansion of transcription factor families correlates with organism complexity. Dr. Marian Walhout and her colleagues have carried out a large-scale syste...

The Heart as a Metabolic Organ

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....

Neurexin-Neuroligin Function in Dendritogenesis

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...

Luiz Rocha: Academy Outreach | California Academy of Sciences

Luiz Rocha: Academy Outreach | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Video Abstract cjfr-2013-0383 Impacts of fire and climate change on long-term nitrogen...

This video abstract accompanies the article "Impacts of fire and climate change on long-term nitrogen availability and forest productivity in the New Jersey Pine Barrens" by Melissa S. Lucas...

Lipids in the plant root

(1) Lipids in the plant root ...

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation #2

Andres Hidalgo and colleagues discover that the clearance of aged neutrophils from the circulation by macrophages in the bone marrow is coupled to the systemic egress of hematopoietic precursors from ...

Connecting the Dots: Linking Sirtuins and AMPK in Metabolism and Aging

Connecting the Dots: Linking Sirtuins and AMPK in Metabolism and Aging - Vittorio Sartorelli and Marcella Fulco discuss their identification of a nutrient-sensing pathway that governs the differentiat...

Confocal time lapse imaging of a developing kidney

(1) Confocal time lapse imaging of a developing kidney ...

Dancing Bees Cast Their Votes on Best Land Types and Areas

Foraging honeybees perform waggle dances for profitable food locations. Couvillon et al. decoded and analyzed these dances to determine honeybee foraging preferences across an urban-rural landscape. T...

Sleep Reactivation Stabilizes New Cell Assemblies

What brain processes underlie memory consolidation? Here, scientists from the MRC BNDU (University of Oxford, UK) test the hypothesis that, in the mouse hippocampus, reactivation of space-representing...

Food Webs | California Academy of Sciences

Food Webs | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Mind-Reading Neurons/ Cell, Feb. 26, 2015 (Vol.160. Issue 6)

Mind-Reading Neurons/ Cell, Feb. 26, 2015 (Vol.160. Issue 6) - YouTube...

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3)

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3) - YouTube...

Recording neural activity a moving larva

Recording neural activity a moving larva ...

Membrane Tension Maintains a United Front

Membrane Tension Maintains a United Front - Using his own neutrophils, Orion Weiner demonstrates how physical forces and not diffusible factors ensure that migrating cells have a single leading edge....

Transporting phosphate

(3) Transporting phosphate ...

Branching morphogenesis

Branching morphogenesis ...

RGS4: A New Target for PD Therapy?

Dysregulation of striatal plasticity contributes to the pathology of Parkinson's disease. Anatol Kreitzer and colleagues identify RGS4 as a key regulator of ......

Developmental Cell Burkel/Bement video abstract

The Vertebrate Mitotic Checkpoint Protein BUBR1 Is an Unusual Pseudokinase. Chromosomal stability is safeguarded by a mitotic checkpoint, of which BUB1 and Mad3/BUBR1 are core components. These paral...