Training Away Distractibility - Jyoti Mishra & Adam Gazzaley at UCSF discuss the motivation, approach, findings, applications, and broader implications of their new study published in Neuron, &quo...
Circulating Hormones Control Gut Stem Cells in Diabetes
Circulating Hormones Control Gut Stem Cells in Diabetes - D’Addio et al. demonstrate that circulating IGF-I/IGFBP3 control human colonic stem cells and represent a therapeutic target for restoring col...
Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry
Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry. Ana Soto speaks about “Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science an...
Membrane Potential Dynamics and Synchrony - Computations in cortical circuits are mediated by synaptic interactions between excitatory and inhibitory neurons, but little is known about the activity of...
Chemokine Signaling Regulates Tau Pathology - Aggregates of the hyperphosphorylated microtubule-associated protein tau (MAPT) are a hallmark of tauopathies. In this video abstract, Bruce Lamb and coll...
Flowers encourage pollinator visitation by producing nectar rewards, but there are also examples of deceptive flowers, such as many orchids, that provide nothing in return for pollination services. Th...
Cecilia S. Lu, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
D. melanogaster remains among the most widely employed model organisms for biological study....
Gain Control in Olfactory Circuits - All sensory systems must control the gain of incoming signals. Watch and listen as Rachel Wilson and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their study...
Dolphins sometimes need pain medications just like people do, but no one has ever looked at how pain medications work in a dolphin’s body before. We gave ten bottlenose dolphins a dose of meloxicam, a...