Network Oscillations and Information Flow - Changes in patterns of oscillatory activity may influence signal routing among interconnected brain areas. In this video abstract, Thomas Akam and Dimitri K...
Viruses Remodel Host Membranes to Promote Their Replication
Viruses Remodel Host Membranes to Promote Their Replication - Viruses know how to make themselves at home in host cells while rapidly proliferating. Watch and listen as Nihal Altan-Bonnet and colleag...
The scent of danger: A 70-year-old puzzle solved - When injured, many freshwater fish release an alarm substance that triggers fear in other members of their school. This substance, which is found in ...
Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo
Establishing Robust Left-Right Asymmetry in the Vertebrate Embryo - Tetsuya Nakamura discusses the role of a Nodal-Lefty-based reaction-diffusion system in generating left-right asymmetry in the mouse...
How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? - Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of coll...
Evaluating the Utility of PDE10 Inhibition in Huntington’s Disease
Beaumont et al. demonstrate that acute PDE10 inhibition boosts diminished corticostriatal input and indirect pathway output in symptomatic HD models, despite loss of PDE10. Their data provide rational...
Open-and-Shut Case for Ion Channels - K+ channels undergo conformational changes to switch conduction on and off. Watch and listen as Jacqui Gulbis and colleagues take you on a brief personalized tour...
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 ...
Sequential and Rhythmic Production of Somites - Illustrated with the developing zebrafish embryo, somitogenesis is a sequential and rhythmic process that subdivides the mesoderm of the vertebrate embr...
Fast Track to the Cell Surface - Live-cell imaging reveals specialized actin-rich endosomal compartments that recycle receptors back to the surface at unprecedented speeds, explain Manoj Puthenveedu a...
Video Abstract: "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity"
In this video abstract, Dr Laura Boykin speaks about her article "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity", recently published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics. This is an open access arti...
