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Nao Uchida (l) and Neir Eshel Say you’re at a supermarket, staring at two cartons of ice cream: chocolate and caramel. Before making your choice, you try to…
(l to r) Arjun Krishnaswamy, Josh Sanes, and Masahito Yamagata The retina is not only a light sensor but also a sophisticated image processor. Photoreceptors (rods and cones)…
As anyone who has renovated a home knows, the process of remodeling often requires an elaborate orchestration of timing and materials. Remodeling at the molecular level is likewise…
(l to r) Shunxin Wang, Nancy Kleckner, Liangran Zhang, and Shen Yin Gamete formation for sexual reproduction involves the specialized cellular program of meiosis. As part of this…
The discovery of neural circuits underlying social behavior is among the most fascinating goals in modern neuroscience: the specific brains areas and neuronal subsets in which social…
Bacillus subtilis is a bacterium with many talents. Some cells devote themselves to exploration, abandoning their relatives to live as swimming ‘motile’ cells. Others instead choose a cooperative,…
Read full story in Nature I NEWS FEATURE Further reading on this work in Nature or download PDF; Nature 485, 471-477 (24 May 2012) View Florian Engert's Faculty…
(l to r) Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dana Brimmer, and Jesse Weber Many animals build elaborate structures—bees make hives, birds build nests, and rodents construct burrows—for which Richard Dawkins…
Marcos Sotomayor and Rachelle Gaudet The vertebrate inner ear is in charge of transforming mechanical stimuli from sound and head movement into electrical signals that are sent to…
(L to R) Askin Kocabas, Hannah Shen, and Sharad Ramanathan Can we understand the dynamics of the nervous system of any animal well enough to be able to…
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Neuro Concentrator Nellie Ide (‘22) Awarded Fellowship to Spend Year with Kung Fu Nuns in Kathmandu https://t.co/JbVUJPHcl3