PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture
PLANTS Challenges of modifying root traits in crops for agriculture - Created by Daniel P. Schachtman and colleagues (University of Nebraska Lincoln, USA). Read the related review article in Trends in...
In this video, Josselyn and colleagues summarize their findings on how neurons are chosen (or allocated) to be part of a memory engram. For more information, see Yiu, Mercaldo et al., Neuron 83(3), ht...
Switching Gut Microbes On and Off/ Cell, April 20, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 3)
The gut microbiota is implicated in numerous aspects of health and disease. In this video and the paper published in the April 20 issue of Cell, Andrew Goodman’s group present a powerful system to mod...
Figure360: Trends in Parasitology, Hopkins et al., Figure 2
Defensive Symbionts Mediate Host–Parasite Interactions at Multiple Scales. In protection mutualisms, defensive symbionts protect their hosts from natural enemies, including parasites. Protection mutua...
A Conserved Dedicated Olfactory Circuit for Detecting Harmful Microbes in Drosophila
Marcus Stensmyr and colleagues explain how they discovered a brain circuit that signals disgust to rotten food in fruit flies, helping the flies to sniff out and avoid harmful environments....
Cancers Chew the Fat - Tumors undergo metabolic changes associated with increased malignancy. Watch and listen as Ben Cravatt and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their findings that...
TIM review on evolutionary interplay between human papillomavirus, a tumor, and a woman
Natalia Shulzhenko and Andrey Morgun discuss their Trends in Microbiology review that proposes a model of cervical carcinogenesis that encompasses interplay between human papillomavirus, a tumor, and ...
A New Strategy for Treating Neuropathic Pain - Conventional methods of pain treatment have often proved ineffective in the treatment of neuropathic pain. Here, in an effort to develop a new therapeuti...
Unraveling the complexities of cell migration - Many types of cell move towards substances they find attractive via a process called chemotaxis. In their latest Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Carole P...
PARP around the Clock - Circadian rhythms are entrained with feeding schedules. Watch as Gad Asher takes you on a brief, personally guided tour of his discovery that nutrient intake regulates the osci...
Michael Glotzer takes us on a personal tour of the paper from his group that first described centralspindlin, and discusses how our understanding of this com......