In this video, Ira Espuny-Camacho and Pierre Vanderhaeghen describe how human pluripotent stem cells can be turned into cortical pyramidal neurons, mimicking key aspects of human corticogenesis. Most ...
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...
Retinal Direction Selectivity Is Reversed by Visual Stimulation
A classic neural computation is that of detecting the direction of motion of an object within the visual scene. Direction-selective cells in the retina respond strongly to an image moving in the prefe...
Evolution of Human Coronavirus Genomes/Trends in Microbiology - In this video and the accompanying review in Trends in Microbiology, Diego Forni, Rachele Cagliani, Mario Clerici, and Manuela Sironi di...
Argonaute Decoy Breaks the Silence - Argonaute proteins silence gene expression by binding small RNAs. Now, Xiuren Zhang and colleagues discover that AGO10 in plants achieves the opposite effect: it b...