The basal ganglia are critical for movement generation and value-based decisions, but while a contribution to perceptual decisions has been suggested, strong support for this proposal is lacking. Here...
Gendered Innovations in Science, Health, and Medicine
Gendered Innovations in Science, Health, and Medicine - Londa Schiebinger speaks about “Gendered Innovations in Science, Health, and Medicine” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of ...
Inside cells, communication between the nucleus, which harbors our precious genetic material, and the cytoplasm is mediated by the constant exchange of thousands of signaling molecules and proteins. U...
Impacts of Africa's Development Corridors/ Curr. Biol., Nov. 25, 2015 (Vol. 25, Issue 24)
Impacts of Africa's Development Corridors -- Over 53,000 kilometers of development corridors have been proposed or are underway in sub-Saharan Africa. These corridors are intended to rapidly accelerat...
Epigenetics and the influence of our genes | Courtney Griffins | TEDxOU
Erica Watson and colleagues find that genetic deficiency in folate metabolism in maternal grandparents affects development of their wild-type grandprogeny, even if the mothers are also wild-type....
What brain processes underlie memory consolidation? Here, scientists from the MRC BNDU (University of Oxford, UK) test the hypothesis that, in the mouse hippocampus, reactivation of space-representing...
Independent Encoding of Spatial and Nonspatial Factors in Parietal Cortex
David Freedman and Chris Rishel discuss their work examining the RELATIONSHIP between spatial and non-spatial cognitive signals in posterior parietal cortex. During performance of a visual categorizat...
The asymmetrical clamp-loader pentamer (green, with pink ATP) spirals around a DNA double helix (yellow) and binds the sliding-clamp trimer (brown) around the DNA in an open lock-washer position....