(L to R) Andy McMahon, Todd Valerius, Josh Mugford, and Akio Kobayashi The kidney is a remarkable organ. Its actions maintain an appropriate water/salt balance within tissue fluids,…
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…
Some of the authors (left to right): Corey M McCann, Juan Carlos Tapia, and Jeff W Lichtman Image shows submandibular ganglion neurons (blue) that express Cyan Fluorescent Protein…
The human brain represents approximately 2% of the total body weight, but accounts for about 20% of the energy consumed. Functional hyperemia (local increases in blood flow triggered…
Erin O'Shea, and Felix Lam If stretched end-to-end, the DNA inside a single human cell would measure approximately 2-3 meters. A fiber of this length is physically compacted…
In a behaving animal, the brain processes information from sensory inputs, and communicates its intentions to muscles via the pattern of activity in descending projection neurons. In vertebrates,…
Co-authors (L to R): Tim Gollisch and Markus Meister The process of vision begins in the retina. This neuronal network at the back of the eyeball receives incident…
Co-authors (L to R) Yifeng Zhang, Markus Meister, Joshua R. Sanes, In-Jung Kim, and Masahito Yamagata, A mouse is small, close to the ground. Hawks and cats may…
Modern genetics textbooks highlight the concept of the ‘central dogma’ which states that DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) and that mRNA is subsequently translated into proteins. …
No matter how hard we fix our gaze, our eyes are in constant motion due to involuntary head and eye movements. The resulting image motion on our retinas…
