Gaining mechanistic insight into age-related obesity can provide clues to developing therapeutic approaches for treating this condition. In this study, Lily Jan and colleagues discover that an increas...
Sulfur for a Long Life - James Mitchell and colleagues describe how dietary restriction prolongs life through the action of endogenously produced hydrogen sulfite....
Orchestrated amplification and differentiation of intermediate progenitors governs the evolutionary expansion of the cerebral cortex. Fang et al. report that Axin serves as a master scaffold that dete...
Cornstarch and the Metaphase Spindle - More Related than You Might Expect
Cornstarch and the Metaphase Spindle - More Related than You Might Expect - Here Kapoor and colleagues explain how the metaphase spindle accommodates chromosomal movements
without snapping apart; the...
Translaminar Inhibitory Cells Recruited by Layer 6 Cortico-Thalamic Neurons
This Neuron video abstract describes a cortical pathway by which layer 6 cortico-thalamic neurons suppress cortical responses to visual stimuli. These neurons recruit fast-spiking inhibitory cells in ...
That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6)
That DNA Ain't Junk! / Cell, Feb. 23, 2017 (Vol. 168, Issue 6). Mariusz Nowacki tells us how junk DNA can be ligated into circles and transcribed to generate regulatory RNAs...
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...
How Does a Small Robber Fly See and Catch Its Prey?/ Curr. Biol., Mar. 9, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 6)
How Does a Small Robber Fly See and Catch Its Prey?/ Curr. Biol., Mar. 9, 2017 (Vol. 27, Issue 6). The miniature robber fly Holcocephala fusca hunts smaller insects. Sam Fabian (Fly Systems Laboratory...
TUBA4A Mutations Are Associated with Familial ALS - This video describes the identification of TUBA4A, encoding the Tubulin, Alpha 4A protein, as a novel gene associated with familial ALS through the ...
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Prediction and Evaluation of Behavioral Outcomes
Orbitofrontal Cortex: Prediction and Evaluation of Behavioral Outcomes - The orbitofrontal cortex has long been associated with concepts like impulsivity, self-control, and emotion regulation. Here we...
Restoring Reality Monitoring in Schizophrenia - Reality monitoring, the ability to distinguish internally generated information from external experiences, is impaired in schizophrenia patients. In an ...
