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Tit-for-Tat: Type VI Secretion System Counterattack during Bacterial Cell-Cell Interactions

John Mekalanos and colleagues describe their surprising findings of the bacterial swordplay that occurs when P. aeruginosa is attacked by a type VI secretion system (T6SS) from a neighboring cell of a...

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Brain Mechanisms Driving Vocal Tics: A Model of Tourette Syndrome

Brain Mechanisms Driving Vocal Tics: A Model of Tourette Syndrome - YouTube...

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Bidirectional Transcription and Antisense Repression of ataxin-7

Bidirectional Transcription and Antisense Repression of ataxin-7 - CAG repeat expansions in the ataxin-7 gene cause the neurodegenerative disorder SCA7. Al La Spada and colleagues have discovered tha...

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How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior?

How Do Sex Hormones Control Behavior? - Nirao Shah and his colleagues explain how single genes control specific features of sexually dimorphic behaviors, such as the willingness to mate, speed of coll...

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Mind-Reading Neurons/ Cell, Feb. 26, 2015 (Vol.160. Issue 6)

Mind-Reading Neurons/ Cell, Feb. 26, 2015 (Vol.160. Issue 6) - YouTube...

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Brian Fisher: Into the Wilderness | California Academy of Sciences

Brian Fisher: Into the Wilderness | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

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Human Mutation - Vera Binder

Human Mutation - Vera Binder - YouTube...

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PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution

PLANTS Review on The node, a hub for mineral nutrient distribution -- Created by Naoki Yamaji and Jian Feng Ma (Okayama University, Japan). Read the related Review in Trends in Plant Science here http...

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

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

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Specialized Sensory Neurons for Hair Pull Pain

Specialized Sensory Neurons for Hair Pull Pain ...

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LINE-ing Up to Influence Splicing / Cell, August 23, 2018 (Vol. 174, Issue 5)

LINE-ing Up to Influence Splicing / Cell, August 23, 2018 (Vol. 174, Issue 5) ...

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Spontaneous Activity Drives Local Synaptic Plasticity In Vivo

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Andres Hidalgo and colleagues discover that the clearance of aged neutrophils from the circulation by macrophages in the bone marrow is coupled to the systemic egress of hematopoietic precursors from ...

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Fatal Attraction: Why Are Flies Drawn to Ultraviolet Light Bug Zappers?

Many animals innately prefer particular wavelengths of light. By genetic dissection of visual circuits, we identified a hard-wired pooling circuit that mediates spectral preference in fruit flies. For...

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Browsing Hyper-low Calcium Landscapes inside Brain Cells

Browsing Hyper-low Calcium Landscapes inside Brain Cells - Neuroscientists have advanced an imaging technique to monitor free calcium—a key molecular messenger—inside nerve or glial cells, with unprec...

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Tracking the Onset of Azheimer’s

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Why Don't We All Get Alzheimer's Disease?

Why don't we all get Alzheimer's disease? Roy and colleagues stumbled on a possible reason why we all don't get Alzheimer's disease even though we all have the basic ingredients essential for getting ...

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TRPA1 Gain of Function Linked to Human Pain

TRPA1 Gain of Function Linked to Human Pain - Mutations in ion channels underlie multiple neurological disorders, including pathological pain states. Although previous work with knock-out mice has sug...

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A Journey Into Entorhinal Cortex | Edvard and May-Britt Moser | NTNU

Kimberly Stroka and colleagues describe a propulsion mechanism for cancer cells that relies on a spatial gradient of channels and pumps in the plasma membrane, rather than acto-mysosin contractility....

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Bite Force of the Living Coelacanth

Bite Force of the Living Coelacanth - YouTube...

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