Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of Sleep Slow Oscillations
Slow oscillations play a causal role in the consolidation of memory during sleep. In this video, Hong-Viet Ngo and Jan Born describe how they synchronized the presentation of auditory clicks to the br...
Endoderm Formation: Not So Black and White Anymore
Endoderm Formation: Not So Black and White Anymore - Dr. Hadjantonakis discusses the work of her group on using live-imaging approaches coupled with genetic labeling in the mouse embryo to uncover the...
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...
This video shows rats choosing sequentially from four distinct trajectories in a maze while we record neural activity from hippocampus and cingulate cortex. Analyses of such neural activity led us to ...
How Attenuated Viruses Become Virulent / Cell, March 23, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 1)
How Attenuated Viruses Become Virulent. In this issue’s Video Abstract, Raul Andino describes the evolutionary strategies by which vaccine strains can become pathogenic, and provides a framework for r...
PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution
PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution -- Created by Naoki Yamaji and Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan). Read the related Review in Trends in Plant Science here http...
Impacts of Africa's Development Corridors/ Curr. Biol., Nov. 25, 2015 (Vol. 25, Issue 24)
Impacts of Africa's Development Corridors -- Over 53,000 kilometers of development corridors have been proposed or are underway in sub-Saharan Africa. These corridors are intended to rapidly accelerat...
This Neuron video abstract describes an experiment that used inactivation of the medial septal area to suppress the spatial firing patterns of grid cells to determine the role of grid cells in hippoca...
PARP around the Clock - Circadian rhythms are entrained with feeding schedules. Watch as Gad Asher takes you on a brief, personally guided tour of his discovery that nutrient intake regulates the osci...
Cell Surface Topography Is a Regulator of Molecular Interactions
A neutrophil labeled with Alexa-488-conjugated anti-L-selectin spreads onto and engulfs an IL-8-coated glass bead in bright field, epifluorescence, and TIRFM. See the paper by Lomakina et al. in the S...