Membranes Use Actin in a Pinch - Endocytosis requires invagination and scission of membranes. Watch and listen as Ludger Johannes and colleagues take you on a brief, personally guided tour of their f...
Waking-like brain function in embryos - When in development do brains "wake up" for the first time? Balaban, Desco, and Vaquero (Current Biology, May 3, 2012) addressed this question using n...
Sensory Responses in the Dopamine-Depleted Striatum
Sensory Responses in the Dopamine-Depleted Striatum. Ketzef et al. show that striatal sensory responses are altered in Parkinsonian mice. Specifically, the encoding of bilateral tactile inputs is impa...
Avoiding Ribosome Traffic Jams - Optimization of protein synthesis for efficiency is thought to be highly important for evolutionary fitness. Watch and listen as Yitzhak Pilpel and Tamir Tuller take y...
V2 in Motion Perception - Motion perception is thought to be mediated by the dorsal visual pathways. In this video abstract, Anna Roe and colleagues discuss their data demonstrating that V2 is also in...
Extracellular Architecture of the SYG-1/SYG-2 Adhesion Complex Instructs Synaptogenesis
Chris Garcia and colleagues reveal that SYG-family adhesion molecules interact with a precise geometry that supports a rigid framework for synapse formation....
Synapses are formed with high degree of specificity in our brain. In this VIDEO, Kang Shen and Kota Mizumoto describes "synaptic tiling" as a way to precisely organize the subcellular locati...
