POMC Neuron Heterogeneity - POMC neurons of hypothalamic arcuate nucleus regulate food intake, energy homeostasis and glucose metabolism. Joel Elmquist and colleagues describe their new work that prov...
Meditative Tone with Binaural Beats and Water Sounds
Hair cells are the primary receptor cells for sound and are responsible for our sense of hearing. Hair cells do not normally regenerate after damage and their loss is a major cause of deafness. We sho...
PLANTS Opinion Ecological understanding of root-infecting fungi
Created by Matthias C. Rillig and colleagues and featuring Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros. Read the related Review in the July 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1er9cSK...
A Mouse Model for Mitochondrial Deafness - Why do mitochondrial diseases often affect very specific tissues, such as cells in the inner ear? Gerald Shadel's mouse model reveals how mitochondrial stres...
Mutations in GlialCAM Can Cause the Leukodystrophy MLC
Mutations in GlialCAM Can Cause the Leukodystrophy MLC - Mutations in the cell adhesion molecule GlialCAM can cause the leukodystrophy MLC. Raul Estevez and colleagues find that GlialCAM acts as an au...
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...
Synapse Number Regulates Alcohol Sensitivity - Alcohol-related problems are associated with reduced sensitivity to alcohol. Eddison et al. find that arouser (aru), a predicted adaptor protein, functio...