PLANTS Review on Ambient temperature regulated flowering time
PLANTS Review on Ambient temperature regulated flowering time -- Created by Leonie Verhage, Gerco C. Angenent and Richard G.H. Immink (Wageningen University, The Netherlands). Read the related Review ...
How do we localize pain? Touch has an area of high spatial resolution, called a fovea, at the fingertips. In contrast, pain is considered to lack any equivalent to the tactile fovea on the fingertips....
Flowers encourage pollinator visitation by producing nectar rewards, but there are also examples of deceptive flowers, such as many orchids, that provide nothing in return for pollination services. Th...
Matthew Bronnimann's project on "An Essential Transmembrane Domain and GxxxG Motifs Within Papillomavirus L2" The University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) is an...
Potentiation in Motor Learning - Traditionally, long-term depression at the parallel fiber to Purkinje cell synapse has been considered to be the process underlying cerebellar motor learning. In this ...
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...
How to Undress an mRNP - Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay requires the RNA helicase Upf1, but as Jens Lykke-Andersen and colleagues explain, Upf1 does more than unwind RNA. It also strips off the mRNA's p...
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...
Handegard et al. develop a technique based on high-frequency sonar to track fine-scale predator-prey interactions. They use this technique in the field to quantify information transfer and collective ...
Blebs on the Move - Erez Raz and his colleagues use a tour through their lab to walk you through the approach they took to analyzing the migratory behavior of primordial germ cells in vivo....
That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6)
That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6). Mariusz Nowacki tells us how junk DNA can be ligated into circles and transcribed to generate regulatory RNAs...
