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...
Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories
Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories. Neural recordings were conducted to understand which situations generate similar neural codes. By analyzing these similarities, McKenzie et al....
A New Way to Make Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - Dr. Edward Morrisey at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine reports on a new way to make induced pluripotent stem cells with miRNA...
The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space
The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space - If you have your eyes closed and are touched, you know where the touch took place in the "external space" around you—this inv...
PLANTS review on Improving Water-Use Efficiency in Plants
Created by and featuring author John C. Cushman.
Read the Review article in the May 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1fnhyA7. You can also read a short interview with the author ...
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors. In this study, Kim and Zhang et al. dissect a genetically defined circuit for appetitive behaviors from the basolateral amygda...
V2 in Motion Perception - Motion perception is thought to be mediated by the dorsal visual pathways. In this video abstract, Anna Roe and colleagues discuss their data demonstrating that V2 is also in...
In this video abstract, the authors discuss their article "The Evolution of Epigenetics: from Prokaryotes to Humans and its Biological Consequences", recently published in Genetics & Epi...
A Sticky Wicket: Opposing Functions of p120-Catenin in Development and Cancer
A Sticky Wicket: Opposing Functions of p120-Catenin in Development and Cancer - Albert Reynolds discusses how his group came to examine the role of p120-catenin in the mouse salivary gland and the imp...
Drosophila CNS Glutamate Receptors Break the Rules
Using structural and electrophysiological techniques Li, Dharkar et al. find that Drosophila CNS glutamate receptors have unexpected ligand selectivity. The kainate receptor DKaiR1D is inhibited by NM...
Video Abstract: "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity"
In this video abstract, Dr Laura Boykin speaks about her article "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity", recently published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics. This is an open access arti...
