Intact Mirror Neuron Function in Autism - It has been proposed that dysfunction of the mirror neuron system may underlie the social difficulties associated with autism. Watch and listen as Ilan Dinste...
Michael Halassa and colleagues describe how brain circuits can shift between processing information from two distinct sources: external stimuli and internally generated constructs....
Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain
Spatial Attention Attracts Receptive Fields Throughout the Human Visual Brain. We use attention to focus on relevant visual INFORMATION. Using human neuroimaging and modeling, Klein et al demonstrate ...
Breaking Bcr-Abl Resistance - Giulio Superti-Furga discovers a new vulnerability of drug-resistant Bcr-Abl mutants—blocking their SH2 domain interface enhances the effectiveness of tyrosine kinase inh...
Deciphering Gene Expression Patterns - Nir Yakoby and Stas Shvartsman discuss the gene expression profiling project that led them to develop this framework for cataloguing and interpreting gene expres...
Connecting the Dots: Linking Sirtuins and AMPK in Metabolism and Aging
Connecting the Dots: Linking Sirtuins and AMPK in Metabolism and Aging - Vittorio Sartorelli and Marcella Fulco discuss their identification of a nutrient-sensing pathway that governs the differentiat...
Pericyte Control of Neurovascular Function - Pericytes are known to play a key role in the development of cerebral microcirculation but their function in the adult brain and during aging is not clear....
Andres Hidalgo and colleagues discover that the clearance of aged neutrophils from the circulation by macrophages in the bone marrow is coupled to the systemic egress of hematopoietic precursors from ...
Video Highlight: Author Aristea Binia on her recently published Human Mutation paper entitled "A Polymorphism Affecting MYB Binding Within the Promoter of th......
Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring. Angela DePace speaks about “Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring (and animal transcription)” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Scien...
Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Ensemble Plasticity in the OB
Context- and Output Layer-Dependent Ensemble Plasticity in the OB. Using chronic imaging in awake behaving mice, Yamada, Bhaukaurally et al. discovered two distinct forms of long-term ensemble plastic...
