The Synaptic Transcriptome

The Synaptic Transcriptome - Using deep sequencing to identify mRNAs near the synapse, Erin Schuman and colleagues find that local translation at the synapse may be much more widespread than previousl...

Mapping Music during Awake Brain Surgery/ Curr. Biol., Aug. 24, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 17)

Mapping Music during Awake Brain Surgery/ Curr. Biol., Aug. 24, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 17) ...

Figure360: Trends in Cancer, Carvalho et al., Figure 2

Figure360: Trends in Cancer, Carvalho et al., Figure 2 - YouTube...

How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior?

How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? - Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of coll...

Citizen Science (Gala 2014) | California Academy of Sciences

Citizen Science | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations

Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations - Can the variability of neural responses provide insight into mechanisms of decision making? Anne Churchland and co-authors have developed a technique t...

Peter Walter (UCSF/HHMI): Unfolding the UPR

Andy Dillin and colleagues show that, in the nematode worm C. elegans, activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR) regulator XBP-1 in neurons produces a signal that stimulates UPR in intestinal ...

Snakes on the DNA Plane

Snakes on the DNA Plane - How can protein complexes slide along DNA while still remaining wrapped up in its strands? Using optical tweezers and a baseball, Taekjip Ha and Ruobo Zhou show us how in thi...

Plants Blast Pollinating Passerine Birds with Pollen Clouds

Agnes Dellinger and Florian Etl present the complex bird pollination system of the neotropical treelet Axinaea. Foraging birds activate a bellows organ, which causes the ejection of pollen clouds onto...

Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Ensemble Plasticity in the OB

Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Ensemble Plasticity in the OB. Using chronic imaging in awake behaving mice, Yamada, Bhaukaurally et al. discovered two distinct forms of long-term ensemble plastic...

How the Brain Accumulates Evidence during Decision-Making

How the Brain Accumulates Evidence during Decision-Making. Making good decisions requires evidence accumulation, in which newly acquired information is used to update beliefs and select future actions...

Why Evolution is True and Why Many People Still Don't Believe It (Jerry Coyne, 2012)

Pardis Sabeti and colleagues describe their analysis of human sequence data from the 1000 Genomes Project to reveal hundreds of potential adaptive variants. In a second study, the authors engineered m...

Leaving Trash with Moms Keeps Daughters Young

Leaving Trash with Moms Keeps Daughters Young - In budding yeast, damaged and aggregated proteins segregate into the mother cell during cell division, leaving the newly budded daughter with a fresh st...

Prediction Enhances Olfactory Processing

Prediction Enhances Olfactory Processing - The ability to predict sensory events before they occur helps an organism navigate a complex world. To provide greater insight into how predictive coding is ...

Helicases Find Their Way

Helicases Find Their Way - Hexameric helicases unwind DNA or RNA duplexes using ATP as an energy source. Watch and listen as James Berger and Nathan Thomsen take you on a brief, personally guided tou...

Superresolution for Thicker Samples, Part 2

Superresolution for Thicker Samples, Part 2 ...

Roaches: How They Get Clean

Cockroaches are constantly grooming themselves, says entomologist Coby Schal of North Carolina State University. To clean its antenna, a cockroach will grab ahold of it with its front leg, bring the a...

Should Single Strains Suffice?

Should Single Strains Suffice? - YouTube...

Structural transitions of a protein translocation motor

Structural transitions of a protein translocation motor - YouTube...

Human Mutation - Conxi Lázaro

Human Mutation - Conxi Lázaro - YouTube...