PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture
PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture - Created by Daniel P. Schachtman and colleagues (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA). Read the related review article in Trends in...
Engineering Microbiomes / Trends in Microbiology October 2015 (Vol. 23, Issue 10)
Engineering Microbiomes / Trends in Microbiology October 2015 (Vol. 23, Issue 10) - In this video and the accompanying review, Ulrich Mueller discusses how one might go about using host-mediated artif...
Homologous chromosomes find each other and align correctly during meiosis with the help of the cytoskeleton, new work by Dernburg and colleagues shows. Watch......
Membrane Tension Maintains a United Front - Using his own neutrophils, Orion Weiner demonstrates how physical forces and not diffusible factors ensure that migrating cells have a single leading edge....
John McCutcheon and colleagues show that, in some cicada species, a three-way symbiosis involving one insect and two bacterial symbionts has resulted in a four-way assemblage through an unusual bacter...
Memory Enhancement by Targeting NR2B Cell Surface Regulation
Many neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by learning and memory deficits, for which cognitive enhancement is considered a valid treatment strategy. Plattner and coll...
Exploring Astrocyte Diversity in Neural Circuits. Chai, Díaz-Castro et al. briefly highlight methods used to explore astrocytes in the hippocampus and striatum. The data show that astrocytes are disti...
