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Cool Videos: Coordinated Chaos in the Cell’s Cytosol
When Amy Gladfelter arrived at the University of Basel in Switzerland to pursue post-doctoral work in 2001, she remembers that her research interests were still a little up in the air. As she settled...
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Snapshots of Life: From Arabidopsis to Zinc
Credit: Suzana Car, Maria Hindt, Tracy Punshon, and Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH To most people, the plant Arabidopsis thaliana might seem like just another pesky weed. But for...
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Snapshots of Life: Arabidopsis Art
Credit: Nathanaël Prunet, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Modern sculptors might want to take a few notes from Mother Nature. The striking, stone-like forms that you see above are a...
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Scoliosis Traced to Problems in Spinal Fluid Flow
Caption: Normal zebrafish (top left) and a normal skeleton (bottom left); zebrafish with scoliosis (top right) and an abnormal scoliotic skeleton (bottom right).Credit: Grimes DT, Boswell CW, Morante...
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Cool Videos: Regenerating Nerve Fibers
If you enjoy action movies, you can probably think of a superhero—maybe Wolverine?—who can lose a limb in battle, yet grow it right back and keep on going. But could regenerating a lost limb ever...
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Regenerative Medicine: New Clue from Fish about Healing Spinal Cord Injuries
Caption: Tissue section of zebrafish spinal cord regenerating after injury. Glial cells (red) cross the gap between the severed ends first. Neuronal cells (green) soon follow. Cell nuclei are stained...
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Snapshots of Life: The Brain’s Microscopic Green Trash Bins
Credit: Marina Venero Galanternik, Daniel Castranova, Tuyet Nguyen, and Brant M. Weinstein, NICHD, NIH There are trash bins in our homes, on our streets, and even as a popular icon on our desktop...
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3D Action Film Stars Cancer Cell as the Villain
breastcacell-mp4 For centuries, microscopes have brought to light the otherwise invisible world of the cell. But microscopes don’t typically visualize the dynamic world of the cell within a living...
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A Fantastic WALS Lecture
A big thanks to Gerald Rubin (center), vice president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, and executive director of Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, for taking part in the NIH’s...
View ArticleFinding Beauty in the Nervous System of a Fruit Fly Larva
Wow! Click on the video. If you’ve ever wondered where those pesky flies in your fruit bowl come from, you’re looking at it right now. It’s a fruit fly larva. And this 3D movie offers...
View Article3D Neuroscience at the Speed of Life
This fluorescent worm makes for much more than a mesmerizing video. It showcases a significant technological leap forward in our ability to capture in real time the firing of individual neurons in a...
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Saving Fat for Lean Times
Credit: Rupali Ugrankar, Henne Lab, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas Humans and all multi-celled organisms, or metazoans, have evolved through millennia into a variety of...
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How Neurons Make Connections
Credit: Emily Heckman, Doe Lab, University of Oregon, Eugene For many people, they are tiny pests. These fruit flies that sometimes hover over a bowl of peaches or a bunch of bananas. But for a...
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