Membrane Tension Maintains a United Front - Using his own neutrophils, Orion Weiner demonstrates how physical forces and not diffusible factors ensure that migrating cells have a single leading edge....
Unraveling the complexities of cell migration - Many types of cell move towards substances they find attractive via a process called chemotaxis. In their latest Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Carole P...
Epigenetics and the influence of our genes | Courtney Griffins | TEDxOU
Erica Watson and colleagues find that genetic deficiency in folate metabolism in maternal grandparents affects development of their wild-type grandprogeny, even if the mothers are also wild-type....
Ocean 180 - The Harp Sponge: An extraordinary new species of carnivorous sponge. n this video we describe a new species of carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra from the deep-sea off California. It i...
PINK1/Parkin Derails Damaged Mitochondria -Thomas Schwarz shows how Parkinson's disease proteins quarantine damaged mitochondria by disconnecting them from the microtubule network....
The function of hippocampal area CA2 has remained unclear for over 75 years. Watch and listen as Steve Siegelbaum and Vivien Chevaleyre take you on a persona......
Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...
Aging Brings on Inflammation - Yixian Zheng and colleagues discuss how aging in flies induces systemic inflammation through a decrease in Lamin-B levels...
Glia Take Cannabis to Forget - Xia Zhang and his team show how cannabinoids disrupt memory and reveal that, surprisingly, neurons are not the target....
Novel Mode of Soft-Bodied Motion - Most of us have surely seen the slow and gravity-defying crawl of a caterpillar, with that wave of motion that passes over their elongated and flexible bodies. But i...
Streptomyces Exploration / Trends in Microbiology July 2017 (Vol. 25 Issue 7)
Streptomyces Exploration / Trends in Microbiology (Vol. 25 Issue 7) In this video and the accompanying review in Trends in Microbiology, Stephanie Jones and Marie Elliot examine a newly discovered typ...
Hearing in a Jumping Spider/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 13, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21)
Hearing in a Jumping Spider/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 13, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are famous for their visually driven behaviors [ 1 ]. Here, however, we present behavioral an...
The Bacterial Effector VopL Organizes Actin into Filament-like Structures
Michael Rosen and colleagues find that a pathogen effector protein assembles actin filaments through the collaborative action of an organizing domain that templates filament structure through both low...
