Developmental Cell Stumpff/Wordeman video abstract
Developmental Cell Stumpff/Wordeman - Kif18A and chromokinesins confine centromere movements via microtubule growth suppression and spatial control of kinetochore tension. ...
In this video Drs. Samer Hattar and Tiffany Schmidt describe how light detection via the photopigment melanopsin in a conventional type of retinal gar1glion cell, the ON alpha cell, modulates contrast...
Evolution of transcription factor families - Expansion of transcription factor families correlates with organism complexity. Dr. Marian Walhout and her colleagues have carried out a large-scale syste...
Why don't we all get Alzheimer's disease? Roy and colleagues stumbled on a possible reason why we all don't get Alzheimer's disease even though we all have the basic ingredients essential for getting ...
Extrinsic Cues in Neuronal Polarity - Is the site of axon emergence determined by intrinsic neuronal polarity or the local environment? Bill Harris and colleagues have found that laminin at the basal ...
How Curiosity Changes the Brain and Enhances Learning
Charan Ranganath and Matthias Gruber summarize their findings that demonstrate that curiosity changes brain activity within the dopaminergic circuit. Further......
miRNA Decoy in Tumor Suppression - miRNAs are known to downregulate target mRNAs by complementary base pairing, but there's more to the story. Watch and listen as Danilo Perrotti and Anna Eiring take ...
Removing Stressed Mitochondria from Axons Independent of Mitophagy
Removing Stressed Mitochondria from Axons Independent of Mitophagy. Lin and Cheng et al. reveal a new mechanism maintaining axonal mitochondrial integrity by releasing anchoring protein syntaphilin fr...
Martha Giraldo, a research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology, was recently recognized for her innovative use of electronic media in her doctoral dissertation. She is one of three recipien...
