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Malaria is transmitted during the blood meal of the Anopheles mosquito, when Plasmodium sporozoites are injected into the skin. In various research projects at the Department for Infectious Diseases a...

Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders/ Curr. Biol., Jul. 5, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 14)

(3) Electric Fields Elicit Ballooning in Spiders/ Curr. Biol., Jul. 5, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 14) ...

Interactions of HP1 Bound to H3K9me3 Di-nucleosome by Molecular Simulations and Biochemical Assays

(1) Interactions of HP1 Bound to H3K9me3 Di-nucleosome by Molecular Simulations and Biochemical Assays ...

Developmental Cell Burkel/Bement video abstract

The non-imaging-forming visual system has important physiological roles, including entrainment of the circadian rhythm, but its development is not well understood. Here, Andrew Lumsden and colleagues ...

Division of an early C. elegans embryo

Division of an early C. elegans embryo ...

Industrial Melanism in a Seasnake/ Curr. Biol., Aug. 10, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 16)

Industrial Melanism in a Seasnake/ Curr. Biol., Aug. 10, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 16) ...

Costs of Clock-Environment Misalignment in Individual Cyanobacterial Cells

Costs of Clock-Environment Misalignment in Individual Cyanobacterial Cells - YouTube...

Protein Aggregation Up-Close/ Cell Sept. 21, 2017 (Vol. 171, No. 1)

Protein Aggregation Up-Close/ Cell Sept. 21, 2017 (Vol. 171, No. 1) ...

The ins and outs of centralspindlin

Michael Glotzer takes us on a personal tour of the paper from his group that first described centralspindlin, and discusses how our understanding of this com......

The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior

The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior. Catherine Dulac speaks about “The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender h...

Unraveling the complexities of cell migration.mov

Unraveling the complexities of cell migration - Many types of cell move towards substances they find attractive via a process called chemotaxis. In their latest Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Carole P...

Figure360: Cell Reports, Nakanishi et al., Figure 7

Figure360: Cell Reports, Nakanishi et al., Figure 7 - YouTube...

What Is Trophallaxis?/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 18, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 24)

What Is Trophallaxis?/ Curr. Biol., Dec. 18, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 24) ...

Shell-carrying octopus , part 1

Shell-carrying octopus , part 1 ...

Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior

Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior. This study shows the role of secondary metabolites in ripe fruits in shaping plant-animal interactions, not only by directly deterring seed predators but also b...

Vesicular Glycolysis Provides On-Board Energy for Fast Axonal Transport

Frédéric Saudou and colleagues explain why the glycolytic enzymes GAPDH and PGK are present on axonal vesicles: to provide a steady energy source that supplies the ATP necessary for fast axonal transp...

Fast Track to the Cell Surface

Fast Track to the Cell Surface - Live-cell imaging reveals specialized actin-rich endosomal compartments that recycle receptors back to the surface at unprecedented speeds, explain Manoj Puthenveedu a...

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3)

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3) - YouTube...

Replication-Competent Noninduced Proviruses in the Latent Reservoir Increase Barrier to HIV-1 Cure

Robert Siliciano and colleagues talk about their latest findings showing that the number of HIV proviruses in the latent reservoir is greater than previously thought, underscoring the need to re-evalu...

Chivalrous insects

Chivalrous insects - Males of many species guard their mates to prevent them from mating with rival males, and to thusly ensure paternity. Generally this represents a source of conflict between the se...