Resting to Remember - It is thought that brain activity during sleep and rest is important for memory consolidation. Watch and listen as Lila Davachi and Arielle Tambini take you on a personally guide...
Mitochondrial links to genomic instability in aging
Mitochondrial links to genomic instability in aging - Understanding why our genomes become more prone to mutations as we age is a key goal of ageing and cancer research. Dr. Dan Gottschling and his co...
How Legs Were Lost during Snake Evolution/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 20, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Most snakes are completely limbless, but some snakes diverged from the lineage leading to the advanced snake...
NAMPT-Mediated NAD+ Biosynthesis Is Essential for Vision In Mice, Lin et al., Photoreceptor death is the endpoint of many blinding diseases. Identifying unifying pathogenic mechanisms in these disease...
Mixing and matching floral traits - Plants and their pollinators can evolve extremely specific and exclusive relationships with one another, potentially leading to reproductive isolation and speciatio...
Auditory Stimulus Selection in Rodents and the Cocktail Party Problem
We must often focus on important sounds in our environment while ignoring others—sometimes called the "cocktail party problem." In this video, Dr. Chris Rodgers explains how rats were traine...
Astrocytes: The Missing Link in Schizophrenia? Astrocytes are a type of brain cell that communicate with neurons at synapses by releasing gliotransmitters. Tufts scientists explain how, through a proc...
The Highs and Lows of EGFR - The binding of epidermal growth factor (EGF) induces dimerization and activation of its receptor, EGFR. Watch as Mark Lemmon and Diego Alvarado take you on a brief, person...
Finding ESCRTs II and III - Markus Babst and David Katzmann talk about how the ESCRT project started and developed in the Emr lab, and where ESCRTs have gone from there....
