Brain-Machine Interfaces: Combining Decoder Design and Neural Adaptation

Brain-Machine Interfaces: Combining Decoder Design and Neural Adaptation - Shenoy and Carmena introduce the concept of a brain-machine interface, how to design a decoder algorithm to convert neural ac...

Science in Action: 189 NewSpecies | California Academy of Sciences

Science in Action: 189 NewSpecies | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Cytoplasmic Dynein Localization Is Driven by Kinesin-1

Cytoplasmic Dynein Localization Is Driven by Kinesin-1 - YouTube...

Canopy Flow Analysis Helps Explain the Evolution of the World's Oldest Fossil Communities

In this study by Ghisalberti et al., an international team of scientists reconstructed one of the oldest fossil beds containing communities of large life forms. The organisms in these rocks (collectiv...

A New Way to Make Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

A New Way to Make Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - Dr. Edward Morrisey at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Medicine reports on a new way to make induced pluripotent stem cells with miRNA...

Fun with Wood Decay Fungi

In this video Drs. Samer Hattar and Tiffany Schmidt describe how light detection via the photopigment melanopsin in a conventional type of retinal gar1glion cell, the ON alpha cell, modulates contrast...

Science Hero: David Blackburn, Finding Frogs | California Academy of Sciences

Science Hero: David Blackburn, Finding Frogs | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Picollet-D'hahan et al., Figure 1

Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Picollet-D'hahan et al., Figure 1 - YouTube...

Getting Tuned into Human Vocal Pitch / Cell, June 28, 2018 (Vol. 174, Issue 1)

(3) Getting Tuned into Human Vocal Pitch / Cell, June 28, 2018 (Vol. 174, Issue 1) ...

Simulation of the Clock and Wavefront Mechanism

Simulation of the Clock and Wavefront Mechanism - The segmentation clock is modeled here as a population of oscillating cells, whose cyclic gene expression phase is represented in blue in the posterio...

A Custom Home for Stem Cells

A Custom Home for Stem Cells - Leonard Zon and colleagues describe how stem cells induce remodeling of the perivascular niche....

Figure360: Cell, Denny et al., Figure 5

Figure360: Cell, Denny et al., Figure 5 - YouTube...

Leptin nixes appetite through serotonin

Leptin nixes appetite through serotonin - Leptin is a molecule that acts in the brain to regulate appetite, energy expenditure and bone mass. Gerard Karsenty and his colleagues explain how they disco...

Network Organization of the Human Brain

Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...

Moe Flannery & Lee Post, Orca Articulation - Chat with an Academy Scientist

Science in Action: Deadly Dengue Virus | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Cytokinesis Swings into the Cell's Center

Cytokinesis Swings into the Cell's Center - Joe Lutkenhaus describes how a β strand-to-α helix transition activates MinE and sets up oscillatory waves of MinE and MinD along the cell membrane....

Single-Neuron Integration of Plasticity Mechanisms Actuates a Memory

Single-Neuron Integration of Plasticity Mechanisms Actuates a Memory - YouTube...

T. gondii Requires the Twisting Motion Driven by the RON Protein Complex

(3) T. gondii Requires the Twisting Motion Driven by the RON Protein Complex ...

Cornstarch and the Metaphase Spindle - More Related than You Might Expect

Cornstarch and the Metaphase Spindle - More Related than You Might Expect - Here Kapoor and colleagues explain how the metaphase spindle accommodates chromosomal movements without snapping apart; the...

Targeting a sodium channel by a spider toxin

Targeting a sodium channel by a spider toxin ...