100 Years Biochemical Sciences Tutorial
Imagine a cocktail party, full of conversing people. As a group, these people love to talk, but for a good party their chatter should be neither too quiet…
Young sensory systems often utilize stimuli present in the environment during development to refine information processing. These processes work to optimize the system for the encoding of future…
First author of this paper, Antonia Holway One of the 10 biological commandments is "Thou shall keep thy genome stable!" One way that proliferating cells accomplish this is…
Left to right: Ray Erikson, Ming Lei and Xiaoqi Liu A new study from the Erikson lab by Xiaoqi Liu and Ming Lei (just appearing in Molecular and…
MicroRNAs are small RNAs that bind and repress target mRNAs. The first microRNA was discovered by Victor Ambros and colleagues in Harvard’s Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology,…
Authors Errett Hobbs (left) and Craig Ellermeier In this week’s Cell, Craig Ellermeier, Errett Hobbs, Eduardo Gonzalez and Rich Losick report the discovery of an unusually simple system…
Zebrafish notochord scatter-labeled with red and green fluorescent proteins Author Brian Ciruna In this week’s Nature, Brian Ciruna, Alex Schier and colleagues reveal how a major cellular signaling…
Calyx of the mushroom body, Drosophila brain[click for full size and description] Authors Sam Kunes and Shovon Ashraf One of the remaining mysteries of neuroscience is how memories…
First-author Florence Bareyre A tragic truth is that the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) has very limited ability to regenerate following injury. There is intense interest in trying…
To ensure reproductive success, animals have evolved sensory and behavioral strategies to identify suitable mating partners. A particularly widepread strategy among mammals is the release and the detection…
