Sensory Responses in the Dopamine-Depleted Striatum
Sensory Responses in the Dopamine-Depleted Striatum. Ketzef et al. show that striatal sensory responses are altered in Parkinsonian mice. Specifically, the encoding of bilateral tactile inputs is impa...
Effects of axon diameter and myelination | Nervous system physiology | NCLEX-RN | Khan Academy
Mikael Simons and colleagues use imaging techniques to demonstrate how specific phosphoinositides regulate myelin growth and wrapping around axons with outgrowth occurring at the inner tongue....
PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture
PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture - Created by Daniel P. Schachtman and colleagues (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA). Read the related review article in Trends in...
Self-Organized Shuttling: Generating Sharp Dorsoventral Polarity in the Early Drosophila Embryo
Michal Haskel-Ittah describes how he and the Barkai group identified an inhibitor produced simultaneously with active cleaved Spätzle ligand, made up by a new conformation of reassociated N and C term...
Symbiotic ants defend acacia hosts from elephants - In the savannas of East Africa, tiny symbiotic ants depend on an acacia tree to provide them with housing and food. In return, the ants provide prot...
We’ve all heard the expression “monkey see, monkey do", but actually, that's a myth. Imitation is very rare in the animal kingdom. Apes can imitate sometimes, but – apart from humans – the animal...
Baillie Redfern - Video Abstract - Poster Presentation - Genomics: The Power and the Promise
Baillie Redfern, UBC, discusses her research "Engineering the production of isoprenoids from Abies balsamea in a biological host system" at the Genomics: The Power and The Promise (November ...
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 ...
Brain-wide pathway for waste clearance captured by contrast-enhanced MRI
Steven A. Goldman and Maiken Nedergaard at the University of Rochester Medical Center explain their findings in Cell Stem Cell, discussing how the human glia transplanted into mice positively affected...
Cecilia S. Lu, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
D. melanogaster remains among the most widely employed model organisms for biological study....
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...
