How Legs Were Lost during Snake Evolution/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 20, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Most snakes are completely limbless, but some snakes diverged from the lineage leading to the advanced snake...
The Temporal Sequence of the Mammalian Neocortical Neurogenetic Program Drives Mediolateral Pattern in the Chick Pallium. The six-layered neocortex permits complex information processing in all mammal...
How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 19, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3)
How Ants Use Vision When Homing Backward/ Curr. Biol., Jan. 19, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 3) . Navigating ants align their body forward to recognize the familiar visual scene and correct their travel direc...
Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...
Nanoscale-Targeted Presynaptic Ion Channel Patch-Clamp Recordings
Presynaptic ion channels are difficult to study because most of brain synapses are very small (~ 1 micron). In this video abstract, Kirill Volynski, Yuri Korchev, and Pavel Novak describe how to recor...
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...
Multitasking microRNA regulates metastasis - Understanding how a tumor switches from sustaining growth in just one part of the body to disseminating secondary tumors throughout the body, a process cal...
Cues for Synapse Formation - The external cues that dictate synapse assembly are not well understood. Watch David Ginty and colleagues describe their findings that NGF plays a critical role in determi...
