Neuronal Microcircuits Underlying Spatial Cognition

Neuronal Microcircuits Underlying Spatial Cognition - The functional microcircuits underlying spatial representations in medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) have not been described. Through their discovery...

Human Mutation - Atze J. Bergsma and W.W.M. Pim Pijnappel

Human Mutation - Atze J. Bergsma and W.W.M. Pim Pijnappel - YouTube...

De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated With Tourette Disorder

De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated With Tourette Disorder. New research led by UC San Francisco scientists Jeremy Willsey and Matthew State has identified four likely risk genes with mult...

Quantifying Shear-Induced Deformation and Detachment of Individual Adherent Sickle Red Blood Cells

Quantifying Shear-Induced Deformation and Detachment of Individual Adherent Sickle Red Blood Cells ...

Serendipity

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...

Basal cells make contact with lumen

Basal cells make contact with lumen ...

Unraveling the Motions behind Enterovirus 71 Uncoating

Unraveling the Motions behind Enterovirus 71 Uncoating - YouTube...

Mito Movement

Mito Movement ...

Label-free Imaging and Bending Analysis of Microtubules by ROCS Microscopy and Optical Trapping

Label-free Imaging and Bending Analysis of Microtubules by ROCS Microscopy and Optical Trapping - YouTube...

Structural Rearrangement of Ebola Virus VP40 Begets Multiple Functions in the Virus Life Cycle

Erica Saphire and colleagues describe the remarkable plasticity demonstrated by the Ebola VIRUS protein VP40, which undergoes at least three distinct structural conformations to carry out different fu...

Cholesterol Binding to TCR-β Keeps the TCR in the Inactive Conformation

Cholesterol Binding to TCR-β Keeps the TCR in the Inactive Conformation - YouTube...

The Tipping Point of Sleep

The Tipping Point of Sleep - YouTube...

Dendritic Imaging with GCaMP6s in Awake Monkey

Dendritic Imaging with GCaMP6s in Awake Monkey ...

Antibiotic Resistance Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus/Trends in Microbiology

Antibiotic Resistance Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus/Trends in Microbiology ...

Local Translation Regulates Trigeminal Patterning

Local Translation Regulates Trigeminal Patterning - Retrograde signaling mechanisms contribute to the specification of neuronal identity via regulation of gene transcription in the developing nervous ...

Human Mutation - Brianne Kirkpatrick and colleagues

Authors, Brianne Kirkpatrick and colleagues, on their published paper in Human Mutation entitled "GenomeConnect: Matchmaking Between Patients, Clinical Laboratories, and Researchers to Improve Ge...

Thalamic Mechanism of Parkinson Disease

Thalamic Mechanism of Parkinson Disease. Hyper-inhibition of thalamic neurons by the basal ganglia inputs has been proposed as a mechanism for Parkinson's disease. This study shows that rebound firing...

Women in Science Summit 2016 Recap | California Academy of Sciences

Women in Science Summit 2016 Recap | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Zeroing in on Repetitive Behaviors

Thomas Südhof and colleagues reveal that neuroligin-3 mutations enhance repetitive behaviors similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorders by selectively affecting one type of medium spiny neuron...

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...