The architecture of adaptation - Cells and organisms need to respond to external stimuli, but then reset, in a process called adaptation, so they can be prepared to respond to further perturbations. ...
Finding ESCRTs II and III - Markus Babst and David Katzmann talk about how the ESCRT project started and developed in the Emr lab, and where ESCRTs have gone from there....
Metformin and Neurogenesis with Freda Miller. Freda Miller and colleagues from The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute give a guided tour of their work on metformin and neurogenesis, expandi...
Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start - Joanne Kamens speaks about “Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gen...
Jean-Pierre Levraud, Nuno Palha, and Pierre Boudinot discuss how zebrafish can be used as a model for studying viral infections and host-virus interactions. For more information, see the related revie...
Differential Hippo Signaling in Early Mouse Embryos
Differential Hippo Signaling in Early Mouse Embryos - Hiroshi Sasaki discusses his group's recent findings on the role of differential Hippo signaling in regulating cell fate during trophectoderm form...
The Mikrocytida -- Divergent Pathogens of Aquatic Invertebrates
To date, mikrocytids have been represented by a single species (Mikrocytos mackini) and some closely related forms infecting marine bivalve mollusks. In this study, we describe a novel and highly prev...
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...
Pathway-Specific Plasticity in a Developing Sensory Circuit
Pathway-Specific Plasticity in a Developing Sensory Circuit. Kaneko et al. show a novel mechanism that enables the nervous system to establish long-lasting functional changes in a sensory pathway-spec...
Old Friends with a New Job - Drs. Yu Kitadate and Satoru Kobayashi describe their work, building on the original Developmental Cell paper, showing that primordial germ cells use receptor tyrosine kina...
