Ocean 180 - Sponges of the Caribbean: What ecological factors most affect them? Sponges are animals that eat tiny food particles as they pump water through their bodies. They are very common on Caribb...
Auditory Closed-Loop Stimulation of Sleep Slow Oscillations
Slow oscillations play a causal role in the consolidation of memory during sleep. In this video, Hong-Viet Ngo and Jan Born describe how they synchronized the presentation of auditory clicks to the br...
Mapping Chromosome Organization 1 by 1/ Cell, Sept. 24, 2015 (Vol.163, Issue 1) - A Cell paper published by Bas van Steensel of Netherlands Cancer Institute and his colleagues reports an exciting new ...
Watching Inhibitory Synapses Remodel - By simultaneously monitoring in vivo synapse and dendritic spine dynamics in adult mammalian cortical pyramidal cells, Elly Nedivi and colleagues provide new ins...
The Good, the Bad and the Epigenetics - Hank Stunnenberg and colleagues of Radboud University in the Netherlands profile the epigenetic landscapes of "good" and "bad" macrophages a...
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....
Go with your gut feeling | Magnus Walker | TEDxUCLA
The CA1 region consists of heterogeneous pyramidal cells. In this video, Drs. Ivan Soltesz, Sang-Hun Lee, and Ivan Marchionni describe that GABAergic, parvalbumin expressing basket cells preferentiall...
How to Undress an mRNP - Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay requires the RNA helicase Upf1, but as Jens Lykke-Andersen and colleagues explain, Upf1 does more than unwind RNA. It also strips off the mRNA's p...
Removing Stressed Mitochondria from Axons Independent of Mitophagy
Removing Stressed Mitochondria from Axons Independent of Mitophagy. Lin and Cheng et al. reveal a new mechanism maintaining axonal mitochondrial integrity by releasing anchoring protein syntaphilin fr...
Network Organization of the Human Brain - In this study, Steven Petersen and co-authors present a preliminary draft of functional brain networks in healthy adults. With resting state fMRI, the authors...
