Atomic Views of Viral Priming with Cryo-EM - Nonenveloped viruses must transform from a dormant state to a primed state for cell membrane penetration. Watch and listen as Hong Zhou takes you on a brie...
Fatal Attraction: Why Are Flies Drawn to Ultraviolet Light Bug Zappers?
Many animals innately prefer particular wavelengths of light. By genetic dissection of visual circuits, we identified a hard-wired pooling circuit that mediates spectral preference in fruit flies. For...
Atypical female courtship, including enhanced genital biting, characterizes a novel stock of laboratory mice. This heritable anomaly appeared together with ectopic Hoxd gene expression in the adult br...
Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations - Can the variability of neural responses provide insight into mechanisms of decision making? Anne Churchland and co-authors have developed a technique t...
At the Right Time and at the Right Place: Control of Cytokinesis in Mammals
At the Right Time and at the Right Place: Control of Cytokinesis in Mammals - Here, Jan-Michael Peters discusses the work as a collaboration between Mark Petronczki (in his group), Michael Glotzer of ...
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure - Patrik Verstreken and co-authors find that in addition to acetylating histones in the nucleus, the histone acetyl-transferase ELP3 plays a rol...
