OspC3 hijacks caspase 4-dependent epithelial death

OspC3 hijacks caspase 4-dependent epithelial death ...

The Mikrocytida -- Divergent Pathogens of Aquatic Invertebrates

To date, mikrocytids have been represented by a single species (Mikrocytos mackini) and some closely related forms infecting marine bivalve mollusks. In this study, we describe a novel and highly prev...

Mito Movement

Mito Movement ...

Dopamine: Motivation, Salience and Learning - A Genetic Perspective

Decision making is impacted by risk. Masaaki Ogawa and colleagues in the laboratory of Geoffrey Schoenbaum find that activity of risk-responsive neurons in the orbitofrontal cortex track salience bett...

New Model for Autism Treatment

New Model for Autism Treatment - Daniel Geschwind and Olga Penagarikano unveil a mouse model with striking similarities to human autism, providing a promising test platform for future therapies....

Unified Polymerization Mechanism for the Assembly of ASC-Dependent Inflammasomes

Hao Wu and colleagues describe how inflammasome assembly brings sensor proteins together through polymerization....

Olfactory Signal Transformation

Olfactory Signal Transformation - How are incoming olfactory signals transformed into projection outputs in the olfactory bulb? Watch and listen as Jie Tan and Minmin Luo take you on a personally gui...

Onset and Sustained Maps in Human Speech Cortex/ Curr. Biol., May 31, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 12)

(1) Onset and Sustained Maps in Human Speech Cortex/ Curr. Biol., May 31, 2018 (Vol. 28, Issue 12) ...

Structural Rearrangement of Ebola Virus VP40 Begets Multiple Functions in the Virus Life Cycle

Erica Saphire and colleagues describe the remarkable plasticity demonstrated by the Ebola VIRUS protein VP40, which undergoes at least three distinct structural conformations to carry out different fu...

Mito Machine

Mito Machine ...

Cytoplasmic Functions for Rbfox1

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Roaches: How They Get Clean

Cockroaches are constantly grooming themselves, says entomologist Coby Schal of North Carolina State University. To clean its antenna, a cockroach will grab ahold of it with its front leg, bring the a...

Human Mutation - Lusine Nazaryan-Petersen

Human Mutation - Lusine Nazaryan-Petersen - YouTube...

Ferroptosis: A New Type of Programmed Cell Death

Ferroptosis: A New Type of Programmed Cell Death - Distinct from apoptosis, necrosis, and autophagy, "iron-dependent cell death" emerged while Brent Stockwell and his lab were investigating ...

Figure360: Cell Metabolism, Quarta et al., Figure 1

Figure360: Cell Metabolism, Quarta et al., Figure 1 ...

Gary Williams: Gulf of Farallones | California Academy of Sciences

Gary Williams: Gulf of Farallones | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

CryoEM structure of a Dicer complex

(1) CryoEM structure of a Dicer complex...

Human Mutation - Russell J. Butterfield

Human Mutation - Russell J. Butterfield - YouTube...

Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts / Trends in Microbiology (Vol. 25 Issue 9)

Metabolic Integration of Bacterial Endosymbionts. Peter Mergaert discusses how antimicrobial peptides are key players in symbiotic interactions. Endosymbionts often go through genome reduction yieldin...

The architecture of adaptation

The architecture of adaptation - Cells and organisms need to respond to external stimuli, but then reset, in a process called adaptation, so they can be prepared to respond to further perturbations. ...