Abnormal brain structure implicated in stimulant drug addiction
University of Cambridge
Addiction to drugs is a major contemporary public health issue, characterized by maladaptive behavior to obtain and consume an increasing […]
Life Sciences
Smelling home can prevent dispersal of reef fish larvae
Boston University
Many marine fish and invertebrates show a dual life history where settled adults produce dispersing larvae. The planktonic nature of […]
Plant innate immunity
Yale University
Plants, like mammals, have a multi-tiered pathogen-detection system. Nicole Kho Clay is Assistant Professor at Yale University. The Clay lab […]
Enhancing Generativity via Intergenerational Activity Engagement in Later Life
John Hopkins School of Nursing
Being and feeling generative, defined as exhibiting concern and behavior to benefit others, is an important developmental goal of midlife […]
Chronic sublethal stress causes bee colony failure, Vincent Jansen
Royal Holloway University London
Professor Vincent Jansen, Royal Holloway University London Chronic sublethal stress causes bee colony failure
Toll-like receptor signaling in vertebrates and the Reactome Knowledgebase
New York University
Peter D’Eustachio, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at New York University discusses the open-source, open access, manually curated and […]
Cardiac stomach contraction in starfish
Queen Mary University London
Semmens DC, Dane RE, Pancholi MR et al. (2013) . Discovery of a novel neurophysin-associated neuropeptide that triggers cardiac stomach […]
Tumorigenesis in Down’s syndrome
University College London
FACULTI – Professor Dean Nizetic – Tumorigenesis in Down’s syndrome Check out FACULTI at www.facultimedia.com for more great films. Dean […]
Nestmate recognition in ants
Stanford University
Deborah Gordon, Stanford University, discusses the distributed model of nestmate recognition, analogous to the one used by the vertebrate immune […]
Do trypanosome turncoats wait before they commit? – Gloria Rudenko
Imperial College London
Gloria Rudenko, Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in the Basic Biomedical Sciences Reader in Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust/ Imperial College Ooi […]