Why Scratching an Itch Makes You Itch More - Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen’s team explains why scratching make you itch more. You scratch an itch to cause minor pain, which prompts the brain to release serotonin...
Modulation of Gliotransmission by TNFα - Release of glutamate from astrocytes modulates activity at hippocampal excitatory synapses. Santello et al. have discovered that TNFα plays a fundamental role ...
A Designer AAV Variant Permits Efficient Retrograde Access to Projection Neurons. Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons for the delivery of sensors and effectors constitutes an important a...
2012 Three Minute Thesis Runner Up - Billie Ganendran
Billie Ganendran (Physical, Environmental & Mathematical Science, UNSW Canberra), runner-up in the 2012 UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition, gives her presentation - "The curious mix of peng...
Turning Ovaries into Testes - An ovary does not necessarily remain an ovary without all of the necessary genes at work, new work by Treier and colleagues shows. Watch and listen as Mathias Treier take...
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 ...
Am I Losing My Retromer? In this video, Temkin et al. explore a synaptic mechanism for memory failure in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases that is dependent on malfunction of an endosomal sorting c...
Circulating Hormones Control Gut Stem Cells in Diabetes
Circulating Hormones Control Gut Stem Cells in Diabetes - D’Addio et al. demonstrate that circulating IGF-I/IGFBP3 control human colonic stem cells and represent a therapeutic target for restoring col...
