The goal of this study was to investigate the pattern of nerve connections between motor neurons and muscle fibers in newborn and embryonic animals. Previous work by us…
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FISH IN THE MATRIX: MOTOR LEARNING IN A VIRTUAL WORLD
(L to R) Drew Robson, Jennifer Li, Ruben Portugues, Alexander Schier, Florian Engert, and Misha Ahrens There are two fundamentally different forms of sensory information that are being…
MORE TRICKS IN BACTERIAL CHEMOTAXIS
(L to R) Richard Branch, Junhua Yuan, Basarab Hosu and Howard Berg The bacterium Escherichia coli decides whether life is getting better or worse by swimming about and…
REACTION-DIFFUSION PATTERNING IN DEVELOPMENT
(L to R) Sharad Ramanathan, Drew Robson, Ben Jordan, Alexander Schier, Patrick Müller, and Katherine Rogers How do zebras get their stripes and leopards their spots? Why is…
SPREADING THE WEALTH IN THE RETINA
(L to R)Joshua R. Sanes and Jeremy Kay The retina is a lot more complicated than a simple camera. In fact, it acts more like a parallel processing…
STRUCTURE OF THE DNA DAMAGE SENSOR FROM BACTERIAL NUCLEOTIDE EXCISION REPAIR
(L to R) David Jeruzalmi, Danaya Pakotiprapha, and Martin Samuels DNA damage is a fact of life for all living organisms. Some have estimated that each of our…
DISSECTING COMPUTATION IN THE DOPAMINE REWARD CIRCUIT
(L to R) Sebastian Haesler, Naoshige Uchida and Jeremiah Cohen In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that direct, electrical stimulation of particular brain areas was powerfully rewarding: rats…
KEEPING THE FAITH: THE FINAL ACT OF STOPPING CARELESS CELLS
(L-R) Derek Lau and Andrew Murray Faithful chromosome segregation during cell division keeps cells alive and keeps cancer and birth defects at bay. A chromosome’s movements during mitosis…
RETROVIRAL RNA SNAPS INTO SHAPE!
(L-R) M. Durney, V. D'Souza, J. Nagle, Carolina Salguero Retroviruses, like all viruses, rely on host protein machinery to carry out every step in their life cycle. Therefore,…
SPECIAL DELIVERY FOR RNA SILENCING
(L-R)Hunter and Antony Jose A powerful way to treat genetic diseases and combat viral infections would be to turn off disease-associated genes. This can be accomplished using a…
