Completing the Connectome: How Pursuing a Map of the Fly Brain Rewired Neuroscience | HHMI

Janelia scientists and collaborators have completed a wiring diagram of the central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly, the culmination of nearly two decades of groundbreaking research.

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Cross-species single-cell atlas of the striatum defines cell-type and subregion disease vulnerabilities

Single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial validation across human and mouse striatum define principles of neuronal specialization across cell types, subregions, and species. These findings lay the fou...

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Algae-specific immune modulation influences responses to heat and pathogen challenge in a symbiotic coral

The role of symbiotic algae in coral life history and host health is well documented, but the immune and physiological trade-offs of hosting these symbionts remain less explored. While association wit...

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Epithelial cell extrusion underlies starvation-induced cell loss in a sea anemone - Nature Communications

Epithelial cell extrusion in a sea anemone shares key hallmarks with bilaterians and is dynamically regulated by nutritional status. During starvation-induced body shrinkage, extrusion likely contribu...

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Diverse bacterial pattern recognition receptors sense the core phage proteome - Nature

Systematic analysis of prokaryotic STAND NTPases — relatives of animal and plant immune receptors — uncovers diverse antiviral sensors that detect most of the core structural and replic...

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An AI-enabled structural atlas decodes kinase specificity across the human proteome - Nature Biotechnology

Phosphorylation potential and kinase specificity are assigned for the entire human proteome.

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Magnetotaxis in an anaerobic ciliate via tripartite syntrophy | PNAS

Magnetotaxis has evolved independently numerous times in bacteria, whereby genetically controlled biomineralization of nano-crystalline magnets res...

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Evolutionary Recoding of Olfactory Sensory Neurons

Odorant receptors ( Or s) are the interface between an animal’s nervous system and its olfactory environment. In insect genomes, the Or s are often the largest gene family, and their rapid duplication...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate - REQID0002557

If you have a collection of outstanding people who ask really interesting questions, like each other and push the envelope, important discoveries will…

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