Neurons Tell the Vessels When to Grow - Yoshiaki Kubota and colleagues show how neurons in the retina titrate local VEGF levels and limit the growth of blood vessels to ensure an appropriate level of ...
Deciphering Gene Expression Patterns - Nir Yakoby and Stas Shvartsman discuss the gene expression profiling project that led them to develop this framework for cataloguing and interpreting gene expres...
Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo
Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo - Tetsuya Nakamura discusses the role of a Nodal-Lefty-based reaction-diffusion system in generating left-right asymmetry in the mouse...
Reef Life of the Andaman (full marine biology documentary)
Coral reef fisheries are an essential resource for millions of people living in the coastal tropics. We show that the structural complexity of coral reef habitats is extremely important for the produc...
Clapham and colleagues describe a unique signaling mechanism in sperm flagella, in which a calcium channel organizes a signal transduction cascade in time and space, allowing sperm navigation toward t...
TIBS Science & Society: Multimedia for grant applications
Multimedia: a necessary step in the evolution of research funding applications by and featuring authors Mike Doran and Bill Lott.Multimedia communication capabilities are rapidly expanding, and visual...
Watching Inhibitory Synapses Remodel - By simultaneously monitoring in vivo synapse and dendritic spine dynamics in adult mammalian cortical pyramidal cells, Elly Nedivi and colleagues provide new ins...
Multiple Roles for Oligophrenin at the Synapse - Linda Van Aelst and colleagues discover that the X-linked mental retardation protein OPHN1, known for its role in modulating basal synaptic strength, i...
