A Custom Home for Stem Cells

A Custom Home for Stem Cells - Leonard Zon and colleagues describe how stem cells induce remodeling of the perivascular niche....

Studying Biodiversity in the Lab | California Academy of Sciences

Studying Biodiversity in the Lab | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

One Man's Pain, Another Man's Pleasure

One Man's Pain, Another Man's Pleasure - How does ongoing pain alter ones behavioral responses to future aversive stimuli? Watch and listen as Marwan Baliki and A. Vania Apkarian take you on a persona...

Toll-like Receptors Signal Safety for Salmonella

Toll-like Receptors Signal Safety for Salmonella - TLR signaling alerts the host of invading pathogens. Now, Barton and coworkers find that these immune signals are surprisingly required for Salmonell...

Human Mutation - Véronique Ladeveze

Human Mutation - Véronique Ladeveze - YouTube...

Regulation of Presynaptic Calcium Channel Levels

Regulation of Presynaptic Calcium Channel Levels ...

Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System / Trends in Microbiology July 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 7)

Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System / Trends in Microbiology July 2016 (Vol. 24 Issue 7) - YouTube...

That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6)

That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6). Mariusz Nowacki tells us how junk DNA can be ligated into circles and transcribed to generate regulatory RNAs...

How Tuberculosis Begins

How Tuberculosis Begins ...

Replication-Competent Noninduced Proviruses in the Latent Reservoir Increase Barrier to HIV-1 Cure

Robert Siliciano and colleagues talk about their latest findings showing that the number of HIV proviruses in the latent reservoir is greater than previously thought, underscoring the need to re-evalu...

Lyme disease bacteria in bloodstream

Lyme disease bacteria in bloodstream ...

Hierarchical Prediction Errors in Sensory Learning

Prediction errors (PEs) are crucial teaching signals for learning. Here, we show that different precision-weighted PEs map onto distinct neurotransmitter systems: the dopaminergic midbrain signals pre...

NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation

NMDA Receptor Signaling Critical for Habit Formation - How does the brain form habits? Joe Tsien and colleagues explore the cellular mechanisms underlying habit formation and find that NMDA receptors ...

Resolving Animal Relationships/ Curr. Biol., Nov. 30, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 24)

Resolving Animal Relationships/ Curr. Biol., Nov. 30, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 24) ...

Network Organization of the Human Brain

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...

Shell-carrying octopus, part 2

Shell-carrying octopus, part 2 ...

YouTube Science Video

Emer Marguire, from Queen's University Belfast with "Why Do We Kiss? The Science of Smooching" - a three minute pitch from the FameLab Northern Ireland Final, an international science compe...

Turning Over a New Leaf

Turning Over a New Leaf...

Adult Astrocytes Contribute to the Synaptic Maturation of New Neurons in the Hippocampus

Adult Astrocytes Contribute to the Synaptic Maturation of New Neurons in the Hippocampus - YouTube...

Science in Action: Islands, Birds, and Disease | California Academy of Sciences

Science in Action: Islands, Birds, and Disease | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...