BRCA2 Bandages Stalled Forks - Maria Jasin and Katharina Schlacher reveal a new function for the breast cancer tumor suppressor BRCA2: in addition to repairing DNA damage, it prevents breaks from occu...
Bombing My Mind - The first author of the original Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Motoyuki Itoh, introduces the mind bomb mutation, the work he did on it in Dr. Ajay Chitnis's laboratory, and some unan...
Ruggero and colleagues describe an enzyme at the nexus between Myc's roles in protein synthesis and nucleotide metabolism, and they reveal a vulnerability for this "undruggable" oncogene....
Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown and Cognitive Impairment in Humans
Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown and Cognitive Impairment in Humans - By imaging the living human brain, Montagne et al. show an age-dependent blood-brain barrier (BBB) breakdown in the hippocampus, a re...
Aneuploidy via Telomere Attrition - Telomere dysfunction and aneuploidy are both common features of cancer cells. But are they causally linked? Watch and listen as Titia de Lange and Teresa Davoli tak...
Squid-inspired ‘invisibility stickers’ could help soldiers
Squid-inspired ‘invisibility stickers’ could help soldiers. Squid are the ultimate camouflage artists, blending almost flawlessly with their backgrounds so that unsuspecting prey can’t detect them. Us...
Meditative Tone with Binaural Beats and Water Sounds
Hair cells are the primary receptor cells for sound and are responsible for our sense of hearing. Hair cells do not normally regenerate after damage and their loss is a major cause of deafness. We sho...
