Fun with Wood Decay Fungi

In this video Drs. Samer Hattar and Tiffany Schmidt describe how light detection via the photopigment melanopsin in a conventional type of retinal gar1glion cell, the ON alpha cell, modulates contrast...

Environmental Enrichment Rescues Precocious Critical Period

Critical periods are developmental time windows when neural circuits in the brain are shaped by experience. Jianhua Cang and colleagues show that a precocious critical period disrupts the matching of ...

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of the AMPA Receptor Proteome

Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of the AMPA Receptor Proteome. Native AMPA receptors are macromolecular complexes assembled from a total of more than 30 different constituents that determine architectur...

Aneuploidy via Telomere Attrition

Aneuploidy via Telomere Attrition - Telomere dysfunction and aneuploidy are both common features of cancer cells. But are they causally linked? Watch and listen as Titia de Lange and Teresa Davoli tak...

Self-Organized Shuttling: Generating Sharp Dorsoventral Polarity in the Early Drosophila Embryo

Michal Haskel-Ittah describes how he and the Barkai group identified an inhibitor produced simultaneously with active cleaved Spätzle ligand, made up by a new conformation of reassociated N and C term...

Developmental Windows

Developmental Windows ...

A New Method to View the Cortex in Depth

Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Yale University describe a new optical method to simultaneously record neuronal activity across all layers of the cerebral cortex -- in a beha...

A nitrate sensor for plants

A nitrate sensor for plants - Sensing changes in soil ion concentration is essential for plants to survive and to sustain maximal growth. Ion sensors had not been identified in higher plants, but now ...

When the Break Is Just around the Loop/ Cell, July 27, 2017 (Vol. 170, Issue 3)

When the Break Is Just around the Loop. Inside the nucleus, DNA is packed in highly complex structures that help to control which genes are on and off each time. In this video abstract, Andre Nussenzw...

Human Mutation - Raúl Estévez and Tanit Arnedo

Human Mutation - Raúl Estévez and Tanit Arnedo - YouTube...

Chromosome congression during cell division

Chromosome congression during cell division ...

Lamination Speeds the Functional Development of Visual Circuits

Lamination Speeds the Functional Development of Visual Circuits - YouTube...

Induced Neurons Recapitulate Cellular Phenotypes of an Autism Spectrum Disorder

Induced Neurons Recapitulate Cellular Phenotypes of an Autism Spectrum Disorder - Alysson Muotri and colleagues derive neurons from Rett patients' fibroblasts and then pharmacologically rescue defects...

The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior

The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior. Catherine Dulac speaks about “The Neurobiology of Gendered Behavior” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science and the Science of Gender h...

How microtubules affect the shape of the endoplasmic reticulum

How microtubules affect the shape of the endoplasmic reticulum...

Turning Up Gene Expression to Treat Disease / Cell, December 7, 2017 (Vol. 171, Issue 7)

Turning Up Gene Expression to Treat Disease / Cell, December 7, 2017 (Vol. 171, Issue 7) ...

Duration of cytokinesis does not vary in first embryonic divisions

Duration of cytokinesis does not vary in first embryonic divisions ...

Node Assembly & Maintenance

Node Assembly & Maintenance - How do nodes of Ranvier assemble? Jim Salzer and colleagues find that node assembly is initiated by redistribution of mobile, surface pools of axonal adhesion molecul...

The Summer Systematics Institute | California Academy of Sciences

The Summer Systematics Institute | California Academy of Sciences - YouTube...

Human Mutation - Joep de Ligt

Human Mutation - Joep de Ligt - YouTube...