In this video, Drs. Christopher Cowan and Laura Smith describe how the protein that is missing in Fragile X syndrome, FMRP, normally controls behavioral and synaptic responses to cocaine exposure. Wit...
How we see black and white - When perceiving shade of gray of an object, the brain is faced with a challenging task: how to map the large range of light intensities in real-world images onto the much ...
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...
Open-and-Shut Case for Ion Channels - K+ channels undergo conformational changes to switch conduction on and off. Watch and listen as Jacqui Gulbis and colleagues take you on a brief personalized tour...
Control of Cerebrovascular Networks Formation by Neural Activity
This video summarizes a study from Dr. Chenghua Gu's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, which demonstrates that sensory-related neural activity influences the formation of brain vascular networks d...
Signal Spreading from a Single Synapse. Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience revealed signal spreading during structural plasticity of dendritic spines using new biosensors....
Oiling the Immune System for Top Performance - Omega-3 fatty acids are a popular diet supplement, but the mechanisms underlying their beneficial properties have been mysterious. Watch and listen as Je...
Altitude control in Drosophila - Flying animals need to control their altitude as well as their horizontal movement. Although much is known about the visual reflexes that regulate horizontal motion, l...
Remote Control of pmCRY2 Exponential Gradients - TIRF mCherry images of a HeLa cell transfected with CRY2-mCherry and CIBN-GFP and plated on a round pattern of fibronectin. The area of activation is r...
Yet Another Facet to Type I Interferon: Kiss of Death to Hepatocytes
Yet Another Facet to Type I Interferon: Kiss of Death to Hepatocytes - The liver is the target of many hepatitis viruses, which affect more than 500 million people worldwide and manifest with a comple...
