Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior. This study shows the role of secondary metabolites in ripe fruits in shaping plant-animal interactions, not only by directly deterring seed predators but also b...
Why Scratching an Itch Makes You Itch More - Dr. Zhou-Feng Chen’s team explains why scratching make you itch more. You scratch an itch to cause minor pain, which prompts the brain to release serotonin...
Open-and-Shut Case for Ion Channels - K+ channels undergo conformational changes to switch conduction on and off. Watch and listen as Jacqui Gulbis and colleagues take you on a brief personalized tour...
Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories
Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories. Neural recordings were conducted to understand which situations generate similar neural codes. By analyzing these similarities, McKenzie et al....
Endocytosis Promotes Dendrite Growth - Cheng-Ting Chien and colleagues explore the mechanisms underlying dendrite extension in Drosophila and find that Nak, a clathrin adaptor-associated kinase, promo...
Gene Discovery in Mendelian Brain Disorders - A Center for Mendelian Genomics gene discovery study is presented that utilizes genomic approaches, which detect rare variant—single nucleotide variants (...
Wnt signaling in Frontotemporal Dementia - Progranulin mutations cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In this video, Dan Geschwind and colleagues describe their analysis of the pathways downstream of ...
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 ...
