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As Caenorhabditis elegans adult hermaphrodite germ cells leave the stem cell niche, they associate with a pair of somatic gonad cells that were thought to be symmetrical, but that actually take on dramatically different positions in the organ.

By identifying cohesin's DNA entry gate(s) and through understanding the corresponding topology between the two the mechanism behind cohesin's activity is slowly deciphered and will aid in understanding how the SMC family at large functions.

Early and late visual deprivation trigger a redeployment mechanism that reallocate part of the processing typically tagging the preserved senses (i.e. the temporal cortex for auditory stimulation) to the occipital cortex deprived of its most salient visual input.

Comparing the relative similarity of cellular molecules to alternate templates allows classification of related complexes in the cell using fewer particles than needed for 3D classification and is more practicable for low abundance complexes.

Hierarchical transformations of visual representations, saccade-related activity, and sensorimotor associations occur in parallel at the juncture of visual and parietal cortex.

Structural and biochemical analysis of semisynthetic Akt forms and mutants has revealed the importance of a key interaction network involving Arg86, Glu17, and Tyr18 that controls Akt conformation and activity.

Prolonged β-adrenergic stimulation causes ryanodine receptor clusters to disperse, drastically altering the frequency and kinetics of Ca²⁺ release events called ‘Ca²⁺ sparks’ in a process that is dependent on CaMKII and PKA.

Deleting the first helix of the α-catenin actin-binding domain results in a slip bond interaction between the cadherin–catenin complex and F-actin, such that the binding interaction is stable at low force.

A novel avian transgenic line allows studying the function of Wnt signaling during embryonic development.

A new machine learning method makes it possible to efficiently identify the parameters of cognitive models using Bayesian inference, even when only model simulations are available.