Gut Movement: It's Complicated

Milena Bogunovic and colleagues discuss intestinal peristalsis and how macrophages and microbiota affect enteric neurons regulating this process....

Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories

Rats Use Their Hippocampi to Organize Related Memories. Neural recordings were conducted to understand which situations generate similar neural codes. By analyzing these similarities, McKenzie et al....

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3)

Antimicrobial Discovery Gets Put on Display / Cell Jan. 25, 2018 (Volume 172, Issue 3) - YouTube...

Why Do Editors Attend Scientific Conferences?

Why Do Editors Attend Scientific Conferences? - YouTube...

A Conformational Twist for GPCR Signaling/ Cell, October 6, 2016 (Vol.. 167, Issue 3)

A Conformational Twist for GPCR Signaling/ Cell, October 6, 2016 (Vol.. 167, Issue 3) - G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) signaling, mediated by hetero-trimeric G proteins, can be differentially contr...

Dorsal Striatal Neural Clusters Encode Locomotion

Dorsal Striatal Neural Clusters Encode Locomotion - An influential striatal model postulates that neural activities in the striatal direct and indirect pathways promote and inhibit movement, respectiv...

Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure

Bruchpilot Acetylation Influences Active Zone Structure - Patrik Verstreken and co-authors find that in addition to acetylating histones in the nucleus, the histone acetyl-transferase ELP3 plays a rol...

Replication-Competent Noninduced Proviruses in the Latent Reservoir Increase Barrier to HIV-1 Cure

Robert Siliciano and colleagues talk about their latest findings showing that the number of HIV proviruses in the latent reservoir is greater than previously thought, underscoring the need to re-evalu...

Structural Insights into Competitive Antagonism in NMDA Receptors

Overactive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are implicated in several neurological disorders. However, mechanistic understanding of antagonism in NMDA receptors is limited due to a lack of antago...

Causal Role of Theta Oscillations in Auditory Working Memory

Causal Role of Theta Oscillations in Auditory Working Memory. This study shows that driving brain oscillations with rhythmic stimulation can specifically improve auditory working memory performance an...

The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space

The posterior parietal cortex remaps touch into external space - If you have your eyes closed and are touched, you know where the touch took place in the "external space" around you—this inv...

T. gondii Requires the Twisting Motion Driven by the RON Protein Complex

(3) T. gondii Requires the Twisting Motion Driven by the RON Protein Complex ...

Rigor Mortis in C. elegans Organismal Death / Cell Reports, March 6, 2018 (Vol. 22, Issue 10)

Rigor Mortis in C. elegans Organismal Death / Cell Reports, March 6, 2018 (Vol. 22, Issue 10) ...

Human Mutation - Conxi Lázaro

Human Mutation - Conxi Lázaro - YouTube...

Control of Cerebrovascular Networks Formation by Neural Activity

This video summarizes a study from Dr. Chenghua Gu's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, which demonstrates that sensory-related neural activity influences the formation of brain vascular networks d...

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...

Unexpected sexual activity in mice

Atypical female courtship, including enhanced genital biting, characterizes a novel stock of laboratory mice. This heritable anomaly appeared together with ectopic Hoxd gene expression in the adult br...

Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start

Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start - Joanne Kamens speaks about “Implicit Bias: Awareness is a Good Start” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gen...

Actin' Crazy

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Single-Neuron Integration of Plasticity Mechanisms Actuates a Memory

Single-Neuron Integration of Plasticity Mechanisms Actuates a Memory - YouTube...