In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...
Mutations in GlialCAM Can Cause the Leukodystrophy MLC
Mutations in GlialCAM Can Cause the Leukodystrophy MLC - Mutations in the cell adhesion molecule GlialCAM can cause the leukodystrophy MLC. Raul Estevez and colleagues find that GlialCAM acts as an au...
Extracellular Fuel for Metastasis - Cancer cells enhance their ability to metastasize by producing phospho-creatine, a metabolite that fuels metastatic survival, in the extracellular space. This proce...
POMC Neuron Heterogeneity - POMC neurons of hypothalamic arcuate nucleus regulate food intake, energy homeostasis and glucose metabolism. Joel Elmquist and colleagues describe their new work that prov...
Yet Another Facet to Type I Interferon: Kiss of Death to Hepatocytes
Yet Another Facet to Type I Interferon: Kiss of Death to Hepatocytes - The liver is the target of many hepatitis viruses, which affect more than 500 million people worldwide and manifest with a comple...
Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Dunbar, Figure 5
Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Dunbar. Biotechnology could provide many innovative alternatives for changing the way metals are obtained. Microbes have been used to dissolve metallic minerals and...