Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication
Shedding Light on Hippocampus-Amygdala Communication - Bazelot et al. dissect synaptic mechanisms orchestrating the information flow from the ventral hippocampus to the amygdala, two regions of the li...
Octopamine Regulation of Sleep - An understanding of sleep requires identification of the circuits that mediate the action of specific sleep:wake-regulating molecules. Watch and listen as Amanda Crock...
Abstract Category Learning - The classification of diverse experiences into useful categories is important for recognizing and interpreting new experiences. Earl Miller and colleagues examine this pro...
Video Highlight: Author Aristea Binia on her recently published Human Mutation paper entitled "A Polymorphism Affecting MYB Binding Within the Promoter of th......
Conservation Campus 142: Engaging business for conservation. Part 1 of 8
Nikolaus Pfanner and colleagues explain the import and folding of β-barrel proteins in the mitochondrial outer membrane. Two translocases are found to facilitate import by forming a supercomplex that ...
Is this the Omics-to-Clinic Site We've All Been Waiting For? with Jonathan Hirsch, Syapse
The editor of Trends in Microbiology, Gail Teitzel, discusses a Trends in Microbiology themed issue on Omics: Fulfilling the Promise available at http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiolo......
Poop and Paddle: An Eco-Friendly Floating Toilet - This toilet floats. It's an outhouse and sewage-treatment plant in one, processing human waste through a "constructed wetlands." Adam Katzm...
Homologous chromosomes find each other and align correctly during meiosis with the help of the cytoskeleton, new work by Dernburg and colleagues shows. Watch......
Helicases Find Their Way - Hexameric helicases unwind DNA or RNA duplexes using ATP as an energy source. Watch and listen as James Berger and Nathan Thomsen take you on a brief, personally guided tou...
This video shows the cross-sectional two-photon microscopy of normal embryos. This is an example of lateral tissue lengthening and shortening in a living embryo....
The architecture of adaptation - Cells and organisms need to respond to external stimuli, but then reset, in a process called adaptation, so they can be prepared to respond to further perturbations. ...
NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation
NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation - How does the brain form habits? Joe Tsien and colleagues explore the cellular mechanisms underlying habit formation and find that NMDA receptors ...
