Kavli Affiliate: Costa, Rui | Authors: Alice C Mosberger, Leslie J Sibener, Tiffany X Chen, Helio FM Rodrigues, Richard Hormigo, James N Ingram, Vivek R Athalye, Tanya Tabachnik, Daniel M Wolpert, James M Murray and Rui M Costa | Summary: The brain can learn to generate actions, such as reaching to a target, using different […]
Kavli Affiliate: Douglas Nitz | Authors: Yanjun Sun, Douglas A Nitz, Xiangmin Xu and Lisa M Giocomo | Summary: Corners are a cardinal feature of many of the complex environmental geometries found in the natural world but the neural substrates that could underlie the perception of corners remain elusive. Here we show that the dorsal […]
Kavli Affiliate: Philip Starr | Authors: James J. Sermon, Maria Olaru, Juan Anso, Stephanie Cernera, Simon Little, Maria Shcherbakova, Rafal Bogacz, Philip A. Starr, Timothy Denison and Benoit Duchet | Summary: Objectives The exact mechanisms of deep brain stimulation (DBS) are still an active area of investigation, in spite of its clinical successes. This is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Robert Edwards | Authors: Laura K Inglis, Michael J. Roach and Robert A Edwards | Summary: Phages integrated into a bacterial genome–called prophages–continuously monitor the health of the host bacteria to determine when to escape the genome, protect their host from other phage infections, and may provide genes that promote bacterial growth. Prophages […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Churchland, Michael Shadlen | Authors: Eric M. Trautmann, Janis K. Hesse, Gabriel M. Stine, Ruobing Xia, Shude Zhu, Daniel J. O’Shea, Bill Karsh, Jennifer Colonell, Frank F. Lanfranchi, Saurabh Vyas, Andrew Zimnik, Natalie A. Steinmann, Daniel A. Wagenaar, Alexandru Andrei, Carolina Mora Lopez, John O’Callaghan, Jan Putzeys, Bogdan C. Raducanu, Marleen Welkenhuysen, […]
Kavli Affiliate: Marcelo Mattar | Authors: Li Ji-An, Marcus K Benna and Marcelo G Mattar | Summary: Normative frameworks such as Bayesian inference and reward-based learning are useful tools for explaining the fundamental principles of adaptive behavior. However, their ability to describe realistic animal behavior is limited by the often small number of parameters that […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Beer | Authors: Bess P. Rosen, Qing V. Li, Hyunwoo Cho, Dingyu Liu, Dapeng Yang, Sarah Graff, Jielin Yan, Renhe Luo, Nipun Verma, Jeyaram R. Damodaran, Michael A. Beer, Simone Sidoli and Danwei Huangfu | Summary: Pluripotent stem cells are defined by both the ability to unlimitedly self-renew and differentiate to any […]
Kavli Affiliate: Denis Wirtz | Authors: Gretchen M Alicea, Marie E Portuallo, Payal Patel, Mitchell E Fane, Alexis Carey, David W. Speicher, Andrew Kossenkov, Vito W Rebecca III, Denis Wirtz and Ashani T Weeraratna | Summary: Aged melanoma patients (>65 years old) have more aggressive disease relative to young patients (5-fold levels of insulin-like growth […]
Kavli Affiliate: Jin Kang | Authors: Emily H. Adhikari, Pei Lu, Ye Jin Kang, Ann R. McDonald, Jessica E. Pruszynski, Timothy A Bates, Savannah K. McBride, Mila Trank-Greene, Fikadu G Tafesse and Lenette L. Lu | Summary: Immunization in pregnancy is a critical tool that can be leveraged to protect the infant with an immature […]
Kavli Affiliate: Edward Callaway | Authors: Jingtian Zhou, Zhuzhu Zhang, May Wu, Hanqing Liu, Yan Pang, Anna Bartlett, Angeline C. Rivkin, Will N. Lagos, Elora Williams, Cheng-Ta Lee, Paula Assakura Miyazaki, Andrew I. Aldridge, Qiurui Zeng, J.L. Angelo Salinda, Naomi Claffey, Michelle Liem, Conor Fitzpatrick, Lara Boggeman, Zizhen Yao, Kimberly A. Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Jordan […]