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...
Unraveling the complexities of cell migration - Many types of cell move towards substances they find attractive via a process called chemotaxis. In their latest Developmental Cell paper, Dr. Carole P...
Scattering of Cell Clusters in Confinement - Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) enables scattering of cell clusters and disseminates motile cells to distant locations in vivo during embryonic ...
Mahi Mahi Migration. In the ocean there lives a fish known as the Mahi Mahi. Very little is known to science about how they migrate. Fishermen are helping scientists study their migration by catching ...
Figure360: Trends in Cancer, Rozhok et al., Figure 2
Figure360: Trends in Cancer, Rozhok et al., The Armitage–Doll multistage model of carcinogenesis refocused cancer science by postulating that carcinogenesis is driven by a sequence of genetic changes ...
Assembly and budding of a virus from a membrane microdomain
Assembly and Budding of a Virus from a Membrane Microdomain - Viruses have an outer protein shell (called a capsid) that surrounds the viral nucleic acid. Enveloped viruses, such as HIV, have an addit...
Ocean 180 -- Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon. Predators can impact ecosystems through trophic cascades. Both bull sharks and tarpon are large predatory fish in tropical waters. They occupy s...
Specified Neural Progenitors Sort to Form Sharp Domains after Noisy Shh Signaling
Sean Megason and colleagues determine how cells are sorted and spatially organized during development. The authors use live imaging in zebrafish to show that, despite variations in morphogen exposure ...
