Erin O’Shea and Shankar Mukherji Cells are kind of like little people. Just like we have organs like our heart, lungs and brain that are responsible for core…
Catherine Dulac and Joe Bergan An animal's survival depends critically on its ability to identify friends and foes in its environment and respond to each with suitable behaviors.…
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…
(l to r) Martha Zepeda Rivera, Briana Burton, and Tanya Sysoeva One way that bacteria communicate with each other is by exporting proteins from the cytoplasm into the…
Chromosomal regions of identical or nearly identical DNA sequence can preferentially associate with one another in the apparent absence of DNA breakage and recombination. The genome-wide synapsis of…
How do brains process sensory input and use these to choose or decide what to do? How similar is the brain activity in different individuals that are exposed…
(l to r) Alex Schier, Andi Pauli, Megan Norris, Eivind Valen, and Guo-Liang Chew According to the British embryologist Lewis Wolpert, “it is not birth, marriage, or death,…
(l to r) Anna Puszynska, Joseph Piechura, and Erin O'Shea (not shown Joseph Markson) Organisms from humans to bacteria utilize endogenous timing mechanisms called circadian clocks to coordinate…
(l to r) Andrew Murray and Lori Huberman What makes a sex? There are two answers to this question, the master regulators that tell organisms which sex they…
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,…
