Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Samuel Khodursky, Eric B Zheng, Nicolas Svetec, Sylvia M Durkin, Sigi Benjamin, Alice Gadau, Xia Wu and Li Zhao | Summary: The evolution of regulatory regions in the genome plays a critical role in shaping the diversity of life. While this process is primarily sequence-dependent, the enormous complexity of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Menno Witter | Authors: Katrine Sjaastad Hanssen, Nicolai Winter-Hjelm, Salome Nora Niethammer, Asgeir Kobro-Flatmoen, Menno P. Witter, Axel Sandvig and Ioanna Sandvig | Summary: Engineered biological neural networks are indispensable tools for investigating neural function in both healthy and diseased states from the subcellular to the network level. Neurons in vitro self-organize over […]
Kavli Affiliate: Li Zhao | Authors: Junhui Peng and Li Zhao | Summary: Although previously thought to be unlikely, recent studies have shown that de novo gene origination from previously non-genic sequences is a common mechanism for gene innovation in many species and taxa. These young genes provide a unique set of candidates to study […]
Kavli Affiliate: Timothy Brown | Authors: Kristian Davidsen, Jonathan S Marvin, Abhi Aggarwal, Timothy A Brown and Lucas B Sullivan | Summary: Intracellular levels of the amino acid aspartate are responsive to changes in metabolism in mammalian cells and can correspondingly alter cell function, highlighting the need for robust tools to measure aspartate abundance. However, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Stryker | Authors: Luciano Dyballa, Andra M Rudzite, Mahmood S Hoseini, Mishek Thapa, Michael P Stryker, Greg D Field and Steven W Zucker | Summary: The retina and primary visual cortex (V1) both exhibit diverse neural populations sensitive to diverse visual features. Yet it remains unclear how neural populations in each area […]
Kavli Affiliate: Eric D. Siggia | Authors: Teresa Krammer, Hannah Taylor Stuart, Elena Gromberg, Keisuke Ishihara, Manuela Melchionda, Jingkui Wang, Elena Costantini, Stefanie Lehr, Dillon Cislo, Laura Arbanas, Alexandra Hoermann, Ralph Alexander Neumueller, Nicola Elvassore, Eric Siggia, James Briscoe, Anna Kicheva and Elly Margaret Tanaka | Summary: Organoids can undergo pattern formation by spontaneously forming […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael W. Young | Authors: Georgia F Papadaki, Claire H Woodward, Michael C Young, Trenton J Winters, George M Burslem and Nikolaos G Sgourakis | Summary: Human Tapasin (hTapasin) is the main chaperone of MHC-I molecules, enabling peptide loading and antigen repertoire optimization across HLA allotypes. However, it is restricted to the endoplasmic […]
Kavli Affiliate: Ali H. Brivanlou | Authors: Tiago L Laundos, Shu Li, Eric Cheang, Riccardo De Santis, Francesco M Piccolo and Ali H. Brivanlou | Summary: Huntington’s disease (HD) remains an incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disease long after CAG-expansion mutation in the huntingtin gene (HTT) was identified as the cause. The underlying pathological mechanism, whether […]
Kavli Affiliate: Philip Starr | Authors: Md Fahim Anjum, Clay Smyth, Derk-Jan Dijk, Philip Starr, Timothy Denison and Simon Little | Summary: Background: Sleep disturbance is a prevalent and highly disabling comorbidity in individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) that leads to worsening of daytime symptoms, accelerated disease progression and reduced quality of life. Objectives: We […]
Kavli Affiliate: David Linden | Authors: Daniel C de la Fuente, Claudia Tamburini, Emily Stonelake, William J Griffiths, Jeremy Hall, Michael J Owen, David E. J. Linden, Andrew Pocklington, Yuqin Wang and Meng Li | Summary: Dysregulation in neural progenitor proliferation and neuronal differentiation has been increasingly recognised as a common pathology in neural cells […]