Fungi share genes - In addition to inheritance, species can acquire genes through a process called horizontal gene transfer in which DNA is transferred between separate lineages. In this video abstrac...
The Heart as a Metabolic Organ - Eric Olson describes how a drug designed to treat cardiac disease reveals an unexpected role for the heart in whole-body energy homeostasis....
Argonaute Decoy Breaks the Silence - Argonaute proteins silence gene expression by binding small RNAs. Now, Xiuren Zhang and colleagues discover that AGO10 in plants achieves the opposite effect: it b...
Differential Hippo Signaling in Early Mouse Embryos
Differential Hippo Signaling in Early Mouse Embryos - Hiroshi Sasaki discusses his group's recent findings on the role of differential Hippo signaling in regulating cell fate during trophectoderm form...
Ferroptosis: A New Type of Programmed Cell Death - Distinct from apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy, "iron-dependent cell death" emerged while Brent Stockwell and his lab were investigating ...
The non-imaging-forming visual system has important physiological roles, including entrainment of the circadian rhythm, but its development is not well understood. Here, Andrew Lumsden and colleagues ...
Signal Spreading from a Single Synapse. Researchers from Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience revealed signal spreading during structural plasticity of dendritic spines using new biosensors....
Octopamine Regulation of Sleep - An understanding of sleep requires identification of the circuits that mediate the action of specific sleep:wake-regulating molecules. Watch and listen as Amanda Crock...
John McCutcheon and colleagues show that, in some cicada species, a three-way symbiosis involving one insect and two bacterial symbionts has resulted in a four-way assemblage through an unusual bacter...
