Harshvardhan Gazula, Henry FJ Tregidgo ... Juan E Iglesias
New open-source software enables, for the first time, extraction of quantitative information from brain dissection photographs that are routinely taken at brain banks for archiving purposes but otherwise not exploited.
Kristina Riemer, Robert P Guralnick, Ethan P White
Data analysis of a large number of species indicates that a negative temperature-mass relationship is not common among species, which has been an ecological assumption for over a century.
Christopher M Groen, Cormac McGrath ... Natalia Landázuri
Staff from the Mayo Clinic in the US and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden describe a joint transatlantic course intended to broaden the horizons of the next generation of researchers in the field of regenerative medicine.
In a fast brainstem relay controlling hearing sensitivity, descending synaptic control from midbrain provides the dominant source of excitation, due to a distinct form of synaptic plasticity.
In a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh, an intensive, combined water, sanitation, handwashing, and nutrition intervention delivered to compounds of newborn children increased telomere length attrition during their first year of life.
Fernando Rodrigo Rosas Bringas, Sonia Stinus ... Michael Chang
Telomere-specific depletion of Rap1, the main sequence-specific telomere-binding protein in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, can be tolerated due to the presence of secondary telomere capping mechanisms, which may help explain the rapid evolution of budding yeast telomeres.
