Social jetlag and its consequences. Why are most people in industrialized societies so tired? The reason lies in an increasing discrepancy between our body clocks' internal time and the social demands...
Metformin and Neurogenesis with Freda Miller. Freda Miller and colleagues from The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute give a guided tour of their work on metformin and neurogenesis, expandi...
Computational Neuropsychiatry - Whole-brain computational models can help generate and predict the dynamical interactions and consequences of brain networks over many timescales in both health and dis...
Huntingtin during Cortical Neurogenesis. Barnat et al. show that huntingtin, the protein mutated in Huntington’s disease, is a key intrinsic regulator of the RAB11-NCAD polarity pathway during cortica...
Sex and the Struggle for Existence - David Clapham speaks about “Sex and the Struggle for Existence” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender held on ...
This video is of the model furrow formation, which captures the lengthening and shortening dynamics that are observed in vivo. The color bar shows the forces that are active in the model furrow....
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of peripheral nerve regeneration - In this video abstract, the authors use the in vivo imaging to examine if and how regenerating axons return to their original targe...
Probing the evolution of human language in a model organism
Probing the evolution of human language in a model organism - The Foxp2 gene is involved in human speech and the human version contains two amino acid substitutions that make it distinct from the chim...
TiBS Review Protein mistranslation: Friend or foe?
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The translation of genes into functional proteins is not error-free. Incorporation of the wrong amino acids, known as mistranslation, can cause disea...
