100 years biochemical sciences tutorial
(L to R) Dimitar Kostadinov, Joshua Sanes, and Julie Lefebvre Neurons in the brain extend elaborately branched dendrites that receive inputs from other neurons and sensory stimuli. In…
Biological systems are inherently noisy: they contain randomness beyond an observer’s control. The most common approach to deal with noise is simply to throw it away: by…
Severe microbial infections, such as tuberculosis and MRSA, often require treatment with three (or more) drugs. Multidrug therapies are currently discovered by empirically testing large numbers of potentially…
You can't miss it in the news these days: neuroscientists are excited about anatomical reconstruction of neural connectivity. In fact, the term "connectomics" is a frequently-edited entry in…
A central goal in neuroscience is to understand how diverse types of neurons interact to form complex networks. A critical step toward this goal is to find out…
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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
