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Membrane binding properties of the cytoskeletal protein bactofilin
The investigators studied the membrane-targeting sequence (MTS) of bactofilin A (BacA) in Caulobacter crescentus to explore its role in membrane binding and polymerization. They used various ...
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Neuronal Development: Rethinking sensorimotor circuits
As you nod in agreement, or furiously shake your head side-to-side, your gaze stays almost perfectly stable. This remarkable ability to fix your eyes on whoever you may be agreeing (or disagreeing) ...
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Computational method pinpoints how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time
A new computer model can more accurately assess how causal relationships in complex real-world systems vary over time.
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The promise and peril of comparing fluorescence lifetime in biology revealed by simulations
Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) excels over the widely used fluorescence intensity imaging by allowing the measurement of absolute signal levels, independent of sensor concentration.
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Transcriptional pattern enriched for synaptic signaling is associated with shorter survival of patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer
Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center and Basser Center for BRCA, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, United States ...
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Mistargeted retinal axons form synaptically segregated subcircuits in the visual thalamus of albino mice
Hope Center for Neurological Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA ...
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Endophilin A1 facilitates organization of the GABAergic postsynaptic machinery to maintain excitation-inhibition balance
This study presents a valuable finding on the molecular mechanisms that govern GABAergic inhibitory synapse function. The authors propose that Endophilin A1 serves as a novel regulator of GABAergic ...
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PointTree: Automatic and accurate reconstruction of long-range axonal projections of single-neuron
This important paper takes a novel approach to the problem of automatically reconstructing long-range axonal projections from stacks of images. The key innovation is to separate the identification of ...
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Targeting IRE1α improves insulin sensitivity and thermogenesis and suppresses metabolically active adipose tissue macrophages in obesity
Department of Physiology, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, The University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, United States ...
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Gut Microbes: Regulating uric acid
Certain strains of a bacterium found in the gut of some animals, Lactobacillus plantarum, are able to counter hyperuricemia, a condition caused by high levels of uric acid in the blood.
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DendroTweaks: An interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics
This manuscript introduces DendroTweaks, a useful web application and Python library that, compared to existing modeling tools, eases interactive graphical exploration, development, and validation of ...
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From histology to macroscale function in the human amygdala
This valuable contribution combines high-resolution histology with magnetic resonance imaging in a novel way to study the organisation of the human amygdala. The main findings convincingly show the ...