Sulfur for a Long Life - James Mitchell and colleagues describe how dietary restriction prolongs life through the action of endogenously produced hydrogen sulfite....
Gain Control in Olfactory Circuits - All sensory systems must control the gain of incoming signals. Watch and listen as Rachel Wilson and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their study...
Chromatin shapes the mitotic spindle - Microtubules make up the mitotic spindle, the machinery that segregates homologous chromosomes during cell division. Dr. Francois Nedelec and his colleagues have...
Ocean 180 - What do lobster traps tell us about the lobsters on the bottom? It is difficult to estimate how many American lobsters (Homarus americanus) are living in the wild. Our recent studies sugge...
PLANTS Opinion Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi
Created by Matthias C. Rillig and colleagues and featuring Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros. Read the related Review in the July 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1er9cSK...
Antibiotic Adjuvants / Trends in Microbiology October 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 10)
Antibiotic Adjuvants / Trends in Microbiology October 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 10) - Rooted in the mechanism of action of antibiotics and subject to bacterial evolution, antibiotic resistance is difficult ...
Emer Marguire, from Queen's University Belfast with "Why Do We Kiss? The Science of Smooching" - a three minute pitch from the FameLab Northern Ireland Final, an international science compe...
TIM Opinion on solving the etiology of dental caries
TIM Opinion on solving the etiology of dental caries -Alex Mira and Aurea Simon-Soro discuss the diverse bacterial species involved in dental caries or tooth decay. Dental caries can be thought of as ...