Watching Inhibitory Synapses Remodel

Watching Inhibitory Synapses Remodel - By simultaneously monitoring in vivo synapse and dendritic spine dynamics in adult mammalian cortical pyramidal cells, Elly Nedivi and colleagues provide new ins...

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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...

β-actin mRNA Dynamics in a Migrating Cell

β-actin mRNA Dynamics in a Migrating Cell ...

Immunology Advance: How an Immune Molecule Initiates Liver Fibrosis

Immunology Advance: How an Immune Molecule Initiates Liver Fibrosis - YouTube...

Human Mutation - Nadav Ahituv

Human Mutation: Pathogenic orphan transduction created by a nonreference LINE-1 retrotransposon - YouTube...

PLANTS Licensed to kill: mitochondria, chloroplasts and cell death

PLANTS Licensed to kill: mitochondria, chloroplasts and cell death - YouTube...

Extrinsic Cues in Neuronal Polarity

Extrinsic Cues in Neuronal Polarity - Is the site of axon emergence determined by intrinsic neuronal polarity or the local environment? Bill Harris and colleagues have found that laminin at the basal ...

Organ Overview

Organ Overview ...

Independent Encoding of Spatial and Nonspatial Factors in Parietal Cortex

David Freedman and Chris Rishel discuss their work examining the RELATIONSHIP between spatial and non-spatial cognitive signals in posterior parietal cortex. During performance of a visual categorizat...

YouTube Science Video

Baron Chanda and colleagues describe the principles for temperature gating in ion channels and how temperature-insensitive channels can be made cold or heat responsive....

Marrying Microfluidics and Barcoding Technology/ Cell, May 21, 2015 (Vol. 161, Issue 5)

Marrying Microfluidics and Barcoding Technology/ Cell, May 21, 2015 (Vol. 161, Issue 5) - YouTube...

Fluoroquinolone resistance in bacteria

Liam Redgrave, Sam Sutton, Mark Webber, and Laura Piddock discuss bacterial resistance to fluoroquinolones. They explore how fluoroquinolones target bacterial type II topoisomerases to interfere with ...

Natural Off-Switch of Cas9/Cell, Dec. 8, 2016 (Vol. 167, Issue 7)

CRISPR-Cas9 has been repurposed to precisely edit the genome. In this video and the Cell paper published in the December 15 issue of Cell, Alan Davidson's group at the University of Toronto and Erik S...

Bonobos Share Food

Bonobos Share Food ...

Brain-Machine Interfaces: Combining Decoder Design and Neural Adaptation

Brain-Machine Interfaces: Combining Decoder Design and Neural Adaptation - Shenoy and Carmena introduce the concept of a brain-machine interface, how to design a decoder algorithm to convert neural ac...

What are materials scientists looking for in a journal?

What are materials scientists looking for in a journal?...

Clemson University 3-Minute Thesis Winner (tie), 2014, Ashlee Tietje (Biological Science)

Ashlee Tietje, a PhD student in biological sciences at Clemson University, describes her research as part of the 3-Minute Thesis competition at Clemson. The title of her presentation is "MULT1E/m...

Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations

Variance as a Signature of Neural Computations - Can the variability of neural responses provide insight into mechanisms of decision making? Anne Churchland and co-authors have developed a technique t...

Slime mold phagocytosis

Slime mold phagocytosis ...

Integrating Learned and Innate Behavior in the Fly Brain

Integrating Learned and Innate Behavior in the Fly Brain ...