Neuro In Silico/ Cell, Oct. 8, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 2) - Henry Markram and colleagues outline the building of a detailed digital reconstruction of a brain region and the features that emerge when the...
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...
The Heart as a Metabolic Organ - Eric Olson describes how a drug designed to treat cardiac disease reveals an unexpected role for the heart in whole-body energy homeostasis....
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...
TUBA4A Mutations Are Associated with Familial ALS - This video describes the identification of TUBA4A, encoding the Tubulin, Alpha 4A protein, as a novel gene associated with familial ALS through the ...
Life is your talents discovered | Sir Ken Robinson | TEDxLiverpool
A tidal wave of signals: calcium and ROS at the forefront of rapid systemic signaling.
Created by Ron Mittler and Saci Adolfo (University of North Texas, USA). Read the related Opinion article in Tren...
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...
Causal Role of Theta Oscillations in Auditory Working Memory
Causal Role of Theta Oscillations in Auditory Working Memory. This study shows that driving brain oscillations with rhythmic stimulation can specifically improve auditory working memory performance an...
Cancers Chew the Fat - Tumors undergo metabolic changes associated with increased malignancy. Watch and listen as Ben Cravatt and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their findings that...
Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of Sleep Slow Oscillations
Slow oscillations play a causal role in the consolidation of memory during sleep. In this video, Hong-Viet Ngo and Jan Born describe how they synchronized the presentation of auditory clicks to the br...
