Imperfect Mimics Can Succeed as Long as They Mimic the Most Salient Trait
There are many surprising examples of imperfect mimicry in nature, and their existence remains a major unsolved conundrum. Kazemi et al. present a novel explanation of the phenomenon and test it with ...
PINK1/Parkin Derails Damaged Mitochondria -Thomas Schwarz shows how Parkinson's disease proteins quarantine damaged mitochondria by disconnecting them from the microtubule network....
As part of the Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Initiative, Rollins College Biology Professor Dr. Kathryn Sutherland led a dive expedition to discover the presence of White Pox on coral reefs of...
Restoring Reality Monitoring in Schizophrenia - Reality monitoring, the ability to distinguish internally generated information from external experiences, is impaired in schizophrenia patients. In an ...
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...
Cell-Type-Specific Sensorimotor Processing in the Striatum
Cell-Type-Specific Sensorimotor Processing in the Striatum - Carl Petersen describes whole-cell recordings from striatal projection neurons in behaving mice carried out by Tanya Sippy, and optogenetic...
Division Planes Do the Twist - Pankaj Dhonukshe shows how plant cells coordinate precise 90° rotations of the cell division axis to generate new cell layers....
Untangling Chromosomes - Homologous chromosomes find each other and align correctly during meiosis with the help of the cytoskeleton, new work by Dernburg and colleagues shows. Watch and listen as Abb...
Time-Lapse Imaging of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells
Retinal pigment epithelial cells, labeled for vimentin (magenta) and microtubules (green), migrate through a 3D collagen matrix. See the article by Dean et a......
Open-and-Shut Case for Ion Channels - K+ channels undergo conformational changes to switch conduction on and off. Watch and listen as Jacqui Gulbis and colleagues take you on a brief personalized tour...
Video Abstract: "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity"
In this video abstract, Dr Laura Boykin speaks about her article "Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity", recently published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics. This is an open access arti...