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...
Martha Giraldo, a research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology, was recently recognized for her innovative use of electronic media in her doctoral dissertation. She is one of three recipien...
Smart T Cell Vaccines: CAR T Cells - by Carl June, MD
Erika Pearce and colleagues challenge previous ideas about T cell metabolism by showing that activated T cells switch from oxidative phosphorylation to aerobic glycolysis not to promote proliferation ...
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...
Multiple Roles for Oligophrenin at the Synapse - Linda Van Aelst and colleagues discover that the X-linked mental retardation protein OPHN1, known for its role in modulating basal synaptic strength, i...
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure
Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure - Patrik Verstreken and co-authors find that in addition to acetylating histones in the nucleus, the histone acetyl-transferase ELP3 plays a rol...
The decades worth of data that has been collected about the billions of neurons in the brain is astounding. To help scientists make sense of this "brain big data," researchers at Carnegie Me...
Love? Oxytocin, Actually. Nathaniel Heintz and colleagues describe how a population of interneurons in the brain prefrontal cortex, responding to the hormone oxytocin, regulates females’ interest for ...
Computational Neuropsychiatry - Whole-brain computational models can help generate and predict the dynamical interactions and consequences of brain networks over many timescales in both health and dis...
