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...
Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, May 4, 2017 (Vol. 169, Issue 5)
Awakening Stem Cells with Vitamins/Cell, (Vol. 169, Issue 5) . Billions of blood cells die every day and need to be replaced by new ones. In this video, Andreas Trumpp shows that Vitamin A is a key si...
Scar in the Gut/ Cell, Oct. 8, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 2)
Scar in the Gut/ Cell, Oct. 8, 2015 (Vol. 163, Issue 2) - Yasmine Belkaid and her colleagues at NIH in their recent Cell paper show that a single episode of acute gut infection will cause an "imm...
Neural Mechanisms of Courage - How does the brain encode courage in fearful situations? Watch and listen as Yadin Dudai and Uri Nili take you on a personally guided tour of their analysis of brain cir...
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors
Basolateral to Central Amygdala Neural Circuits for Appetitive Behaviors. In this study, Kim and Zhang et al. dissect a genetically defined circuit for appetitive behaviors from the basolateral amygda...
Regional Sleep Oscillations in Humans - Slow waves and sleep spindles are the hallmarks of NREM sleep EEG. Watch and listen as Yuval Nir and colleagues take you on a guided tour of their findings demo...
CRISPR-Cas9 has been repurposed to precisely edit the genome. In this video and the Cell paper published in the December 15 issue of Cell, Alan Davidson's group at the University of Toronto and Erik S...
Ocean 180 - Sponges of the Caribbean: What ecological factors most affect them? Sponges are animals that eat tiny food particles as they pump water through their bodies. They are very common on Caribb...
Abstract Category Learning - The classification of diverse experiences into useful categories is important for recognizing and interpreting new experiences. Earl Miller and colleagues examine this pro...
Ocean 180 - The Harp Sponge: An extraordinary new species of carnivorous sponge. n this video we describe a new species of carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra from the deep-sea off California. It i...
Zeroing in on Repetitive Behaviors. Thomas Südhof and colleagues reveal that neuroligin-3 mutations enhance repetitive behaviors similar to those seen in autism spectrum disorders by selectively affec...