Archivo: The Scientist
Communicating Across Kingdoms?
Researchers pinpoint microRNAs that could play a role in how Wolbachia bacteria manipulate their arthropod hosts.
Seeing Inside Cells
Several teams reported on insights gleaned from live-cell images obtained through the use of super-resolution microscopy at this week’s American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual meeting held in Philadelphia.
Genome Digest
What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes
Upside of Early-Life Stress?
Mice raised under stressful conditions are more adaptable as adults—and may pass this trait on to their pups.
Mixed Signals
Individual neurons in the dorsomedial striatum integrate responses to sight and touch.
Rhythmic Rewiring
Circadian neurons in fruit flies form synapses with different, noncircadian brain regions depending on the time of day.
Light-Operated Drugs
Scientists create a photosensitive pharmaceutical to target a glutamate receptor.
Turning Back the Brain’s Clock
The brain’s ability to make new neural connections can be restored in mice by blocking a protein that normally acts as a natural brake on neuroplasticity.
Myelin’s Role in Motor Learning
The production of new myelin in the brain—a function of non-neuronal glial cells—may be necessary for motor learning, a mouse study shows.
Epigenetics Paper Raises Questions
GENETICS publishes a commentary criticizing a Nature Neuroscience paper claiming that mice can inherit smell sensitivities that their parents acquired during life.