Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring. Angela DePace speaks about “Precision & Plasticity in Mentoring (and animal transcription)” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Scien...
A Mouse Model for Mitochondrial Deafness - Why do mitochondrial diseases often affect very specific tissues, such as cells in the inner ear? Gerald Shadel's mouse model reveals how mitochondrial stres...
Memory Enhancement by Targeting NR2B Cell Surface Regulation
Many neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by learning and memory deficits, for which cognitive enhancement is considered a valid treatment strategy. Plattner and coll...
Mapping Chromosome Organization 1 by 1/ Cell, Sept. 24, 2015 (Vol.163, Issue 1) - A Cell paper published by Bas van Steensel of Netherlands Cancer Institute and his colleagues reports an exciting new ...
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 ...
The Heart as a Metabolic Organ - Eric Olson describes how a drug designed to treat cardiac disease reveals an unexpected role for the heart in whole-body energy homeostasis....
Streptomyces Exploration / Trends in Microbiology July 2017 (Vol. 25 Issue 7)
Streptomyces Exploration / Trends in Microbiology (Vol. 25 Issue 7) In this video and the accompanying review in Trends in Microbiology, Stephanie Jones and Marie Elliot examine a newly discovered typ...
Experimental observation of long-term memory formation and retrieval in vertebrate brain has long been an elusive goal. Here, Aoki et al. subject zebrafish to a reinforcement learning task and study n...
Ocean 180 -- Innocence by Viral Tagging. Viruses are the most abundant biological entities on the planet with approximately 1030 in the world’s oceans at any time. As such, they play a central role in...
