(L to R) Sayaka Sugiyama and Takao Hensch Researchers have long sought a factor that can trigger the brain’s ability to learn – and perhaps recapture the “sponge-like”…
The co-authors (left to right): M. Prentiss, R. Koszul, K.P. Kim, S. Kameoka, and N. Kleckner Movement plays important fundamental roles in basic chromosomal processes. Motion is most…
Authors Josh Sanes (left) and Brendan Lilley Directional flow of information within the nervous system depends upon the ability of neurons to divide themselves into discrete compartments. Most…
Authors Michael Fox (left) and Josh Sanes The synapse is the heart of the nervous system, the site at which information is processed and passed between cells. Proper…
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…
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…
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…
Figure 1: E. coli cell just prior to cell division with classic terminus-in / origin-out configuration. Origin (blue) and terminus (red) loci were visualized by FISH, and the…
Richard Losick and Jonathan Dworkin In 1918, German embryologist Hans Spemann took an early newt embryo and removed some cells that were destined to become skin. He transplanted…
Neurons analyze and transmit information in the brain. Information is transferred from one neuron to another through the functional contact sites called synapses. When a neuron is activated,…
