The water channel AQP4 contributes to a tonic water outflow from brain astrocytes, thereby modulating their volume dynamics and the ambient water homeostasis.
Ifrd1 and Ifrd2 were identified using knockout mice as new molecular players regulating via two discrete mechanisms the activity of the transcriptional regulator Dlk1 and thereby affecting adipocyte differentiation.
Christopher Edelmaier, Adam R Lamson ... Meredith D Betterton
A computational model of fission yeast mitosis can interrogate mechanisms required for successful mitosis, the origin of spindle length fluctuations, and spindle force balance during assembly.
A new computational analysis of decision making in mice shows sex biases in value-updating while exploring unknown options, with male mice tending to explore longer than females due to updating values more slowly.
Audrey Dureux, Alessandro Zanini ... Stefan Everling
Shared traits in gaze patterns and brain activations between marmosets and humans during Theory of Mind animations reveal cross-species cognitive similarities.
Michael Roland Wolff, Andrea Schmid ... Ulrich Gerland
The integration of multi-nucleosome configuration data with histone turnover and new chromatin accessibility data by systematically investigated 'regulated on-off-slide' models reveals promoter state transitions regulated by just one assembly process.
A 3D model captures the growth and expansion dynamics of bacterial colonies, revealing distinct effects of surface tension, mechanical forces, and nutrients on the speed of radial and vertical expansion.