Wnt signaling in Frontotemporal Dementia - Progranulin mutations cause frontotemporal dementia (FTD). In this video, Dan Geschwind and colleagues describe their analysis of the pathways downstream of ...
How Does the Octopus Prevent Arm-to-Arm Interference?
Each of the eight long and flexible arms of the octopus is equipped with two rows of hundreds of suckers. This video from Nesher et al. shows that these suckers have a reflexive tendency to stick them...
Am I Losing My Retromer? In this video, Temkin et al. explore a synaptic mechanism for memory failure in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases that is dependent on malfunction of an endosomal sorting c...
Getting Paid What You're Worth. Evelyn Murphy speaks about “How to get paid what you’re worth” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on Thursd...
Fruit chemistry alters animal behavior. This study shows the role of secondary metabolites in ripe fruits in shaping plant-animal interactions, not only by directly deterring seed predators but also b...
Figure360: Trends in Biotechnology, Johannssen and Lepenies, Figure 3
Glycan-Based Cell Targeting To Modulate Immune Responses. Glycosylation is an integral post-translational modification present in more than half of all eukaryotic proteins. It affects key protein func...
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11)
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11) - Cyrus Mallon and Joana Salles discuss how microbial invasions follow a universal process of introduction, establishment,...
Remote Control of pmCRY2 Exponential Gradients - TIRF mCherry images of a HeLa cell transfected with CRY2-mCherry and CIBN-GFP and plated on a round pattern of fibronectin. The area of activation is r...
TUBA4A Mutations Are Associated with Familial ALS - This video describes the identification of TUBA4A, encoding the Tubulin, Alpha 4A protein, as a novel gene associated with familial ALS through the ...
