Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry
Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry. Ana Soto speaks about “Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science an...
Feedback Control of Gene Expression Variability in the Caenorhabditis elegans Wnt Pathway
Alexander van Oudenaarden and colleagues discuss their analysis of Wnt-activated Hox gene expression and find that an interdependent positive and negative feedback network within Wnt signaling ensures...
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors. In this study, Kim and Zhang et al. dissect a genetically defined circuit for appetitive behaviors from the basolateral amygda...
Assembly and Functions of a Viral Polymer that Inactivates Multiple Tumor Suppressors
Clodagh O'Shea and colleagues describe how they used a combination of ultrastructural, crystallography, and biochemical studies to show that the adenoviral protein E4-ORF3 forms a multivalent polymer ...
We’ve all heard the expression “monkey see, monkey do", but actually, that's a myth. Imitation is very rare in the animal kingdom. Apes can imitate sometimes, but – apart from humans – the animal...
Sex and the Struggle for Existence - David Clapham speaks about “Sex and the Struggle for Existence” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on ...
A New Exit from the Nucleus - RNP granules bud through the nuclear envelope, finds Vivian Budnik, providing a route to the cytosol that bypasses the pore....
Video Abstract cjz-2014-0231 Negligible energetic cost of sonar jamming in a bat-moth interaction
This video abstract accompanies the article Negligible energetic cost of sonar jamming in a bat-moth interaction by Aaron J. Corcoran, H. Arthur Woods, published in Canadian Journal of Zoology. ...
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...
The Highs and Lows of EGFR - The binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) induces dimerization and activation of its receptor, EGFR. Watch as Mark Lemmon and Diego Alvarado take you on a brief, person...
Am I Losing My Retromer? In this video, Temkin et al. explore a synaptic mechanism for memory failure in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases that is dependent on malfunction of an endosomal sorting c...
