Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain
Assembly and Budding of a Virus from a Membrane Microdomain - Viruses have an outer protein shell (called a capsid) that surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an addit...
Go with your gut feeling | Magnus Walker | TEDxUCLA
The CA1 region consists of heterogeneous pyramidal cells. In this video, Drs. Ivan Soltesz, Sang-Hun Lee, and Ivan Marchionni describe that GABAergic, parvalbumin expressing basket cells preferentiall...
Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain
Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain. We use attention to focus on relevant visual INFORMATION. Using human neuroimaging and modeling, Klein et al demonstrate ...
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5)
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5) - In this video and the accompanying Cell paper, the Tony Hyman and Simon Alberti groups at Max Planck Institute propose an intere...
Cascade Defense Tactics/Cell, Oct. 29, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 4) - CRISPR defends bacteria against viral invasion by recognizing the viral DNA sequence. What if virus mutates the sequence? The paper by...
Ruggero and colleagues describe an enzyme at the nexus between Myc's roles in protein synthesis and nucleotide metabolism, and they reveal a vulnerability for this "undruggable" oncogene....
Cell-Type-Specific Sensorimotor Processing in the Striatum
Cell-Type-Specific Sensorimotor Processing in the Striatum - Carl Petersen describes whole-cell recordings from striatal projection neurons in behaving mice carried out by Tanya Sippy, and optogenetic...
