Avoiding Ribosome Traffic Jams - Optimization of protein synthesis for efficiency is thought to be highly important for evolutionary fitness. Watch and listen as Yitzhak Pilpel and Tamir Tuller take y...
Shaping A Morphogen Gradient
Extracellular BMP-binding proteins, such as Sog, regulate the access of BMP ligands to their signaling receptors. Peluso et al. (Developmental Cell, August 2011) report ho...
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...
Allele Expression Effects in the Brain. A new in vivo screen by the Gregg lab uncovers novel maternal and paternal allele expression effects in the mouse and primate brain. In the context of a heteroz...
Keeping Gray Hairs at Bay, Wnt Coordinates Color with Growth
Keeping Gray Hairs at Bay, Wnt Coordinates Color with Growth - How does blonde hair stay blonde? Here, Ito and colleagues explain how Wnt signaling synchronizes two populations of stem cells in the ha...
Dynamic Facial Expressions of Emotion Transmit Hierarchical Information over Time
Facial expressions have evolved to be a near-optimal system of communication. Jack et al. show that dynamic facial expressions of emotion transmit a developing hierarchy of information over time. Earl...
