by Mary Kenyon, University of Iowa Credit: CC0 Public Domain A University of Iowa neuroscience research team has identified a fundamental biochemical mechanism underlying memory storage and has linked this mechanism to cognitive deficits in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. While working to understand how memories are formed and stored in the...
by University of Michigan In this representation, the red background is the cytosol, and ribosomes are in light green. tRNAs are the purplish blue blobs. Some tRNAs are in the cytosol and others are bound to the green ribosomes. The mRNAs are represented in yellow. The thin purple strand coming out the other side of the...
by Elisabeth Paymal, University of Michigan Somatostatin-expressing interneurons in the mouse dentate gyrus, labeled with Brainbow 3.0, which labels each neuron a distinct color. cFos, labeled green, is present in the nuclei of surrounding pyramidal cells which are active during sleep. Credit: Frank Raven While some students may think it’s a good idea to pull an...
