De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated With Tourette Disorder
De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated With Tourette Disorder. New research led by UC San Francisco scientists Jeremy Willsey and Matthew State has identified four likely risk genes with mult...
A Circuit for Choices Based on Curiosity - Co-authors Tommy Blanchard and Ben Hayden summarize the high points of their paper published in Neuron. They give some background details, explain the broade...
Leaving Trash with Moms Keeps Daughters Young - In budding yeast, damaged and aggregated proteins segregate into the mother cell during cell division, leaving the newly budded daughter with a fresh st...
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...
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...
Memory Enhancement by Targeting NR2B Cell Surface Regulation
Many neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by learning and memory deficits, for which cognitive enhancement is considered a valid treatment strategy. Plattner and coll...
Why don't we all get Alzheimer's disease? Roy and colleagues stumbled on a possible reason why we all don't get Alzheimer's disease even though we all have the basic ingredients essential for getting ...
Bioluminescent millipedes - Bioluminescence is the ability of an organism to generate its own light. Numerous functions have been proposed for the 40 or more independent origins of bioluminescence, fo...
