Visual control of octopus arm movements - Octopuses are known among invertebrates for their sophisticated behavior and the task they face of controlling eight flexible arms is a daunting one. As expla...
Parsing out blood stem cells - For many years, researcher thought that blood stem cells (HSCs) were a fairly uniform population. However, recent studies have started to show that this is not really t...
PLANTS review on Improving Water-Use Efficiency in Plants
Created by and featuring author John C. Cushman.
Read the Review article in the May 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1fnhyA7. You can also read a short interview with the author ...
Fear Signals from Predators - Mice exhibit fear behavior towards predators, or simply predator odors, even without prior exposure to these predators. Watch and listen as Lisa Stowers and Fabio Papes t...
In this video, Josselyn and colleagues summarize their findings on how neurons are chosen (or allocated) to be part of a memory engram. For more information, see Yiu, Mercaldo et al., Neuron 83(3), ht...
Chemokine Signaling Regulates Tau Pathology - Aggregates of the hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) are a hallmark of tauopathies. In this video abstract, Bruce Lamb and coll...
What Makes an Osteoclast Special? - Hiroshi Takayanagi, discusses how he decided at the time to investigate the transcriptional effectors of osteoclast RANKL signaling, within Tadatsugu Taniguchi's gr...
Chromatin shapes the mitotic spindle - Microtubules make up the mitotic spindle, the machinery that segregates homologous chromosomes during cell division. Dr. Francois Nedelec and his colleagues have...
Cav1 Shapes the Matrix to Guide Metastasis - Miguel del Pozo and team members show us how stromal fibroblasts can guide tumor cell migration by stretching the matrix into ordered tracks. Mutating Cav1...
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...
