Combining micropatterning, traction force microscopy, and optogenetics, it is shown that epithelial cells actively respond to mechanical signals from neighboring cells.

The bacterium Escherichia coli possesses a permissive cytoplasmic environment and the requisite molecular machinery to support the propagation of prions.

Memory guides attention by enabling preparation for upcoming states in the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex.

Single-neuron spikes in a network model of the turtle cortex trigger reliable, yet flexible sequences of activity through a sparse backbone of strong synaptic connections.

Structural and functional investigations identify a structural unit for ephaptic coupling in the heart, and provide the mechanistic basis for a novel strategy for the treatment of arrhythmias.

A computational model shows that preparation arises as an optimal control strategy in input-driven recurrent neural networks performing a delayed-reaching task.

Ripple origination point shapes neural activity dynamics across the different hippocampal subfields.

The evidence of subspace computation in the lateral prefrontal cortex provides insights into the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive flexibility and interference between different cognitive processes.

Human fMRI experiments reveal differences in the propagation of spontaneous brain activity during sleep versus wakefulness.

In vivo imaging of extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity reveals radial ERK activation patterns that are associated with cell cycle progression in the mouse epidermis.