Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5)
Phase Transition in Disease/ Cell August 27, 2015 (Vol. 162, Issue 5) - In this video and the accompanying Cell paper, the Tony Hyman and Simon Alberti groups at Max Planck Institute propose an intere...
Probing the evolution of human language in a model organism
Probing the evolution of human language in a model organism - The Foxp2 gene is involved in human speech and the human version contains two amino acid substitutions that make it distinct from the chim...
Shaping A Morphogen Gradient
Extracellular BMP-binding proteins, such as Sog, regulate the access of BMP ligands to their signaling receptors. Peluso et al. (Developmental Cell, August 2011) report ho...
Computational Neuropsychiatry - Whole-brain computational models can help generate and predict the dynamical interactions and consequences of brain networks over many timescales in both health and dis...
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...
PLANTS Opinion Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi
Created by Matthias C. Rillig and colleagues and featuring Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros. Read the related Review in the July 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1er9cSK...
Sensing DNA Damage, ATP Orders an Mre11-Rad50 Clamp Down
Sensing DNA Damage, ATP Orders an Mre11-Rad50 Clamp Down - By trapping Mre11-Rad50 in mulitple states, Karl-Peter Hopfner and colleagues discover that Mre11-Rad50 transiently assembles into an ATP-con...
Mismatch Receptive Fields in Mouse Visual Cortex - Zmarz and Keller show that in V1 neurons, sensorimotor mismatch responses, like visual responses, are confined to specific regions of the visual fiel...
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...