Teamwork in the inner ear
3D MINFLUX image: Each colored “dot” is an arrangement of messenger substance receptors (nanoclusters) that together form a ring-shaped structure on the auditory nerve cells.

Our hearing is based on the organized grouping of proteins

Guinea baboons share meat according to fixed social rules
A good catch. This adult Guinea baboon (Papio papio) just catched a young bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus).

A study by the German Primate Center shows parallels between Guinea baboons and human hunter-gatherer societies

Controlling prostheses with the power of thought
Graphic representation of a rhesus monkey brain. The areas of the brain that play a role in controlling arm and grasping movements are marked in color. Yellow: premotor cortex, green: motor cortex, blue: medial intraparietal area.

How research into movement planning in the brain is helping to advance the development of neuroprostheses

New Insights into the Molecular Basis of Ataxia
Die Bochumer Forscherinnen Pauline Bohne (links) und Melanie Mark

People with ataxia often experience stress-induced motor incoordination. Researchers have now discovered which receptor is responsible for this.

Why women live longer than men
Male and female olive baboon (Papio anubis) in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

Study traces the evolutionary roots of the lifespan gap between women and men

Signals from the brain reveal what color a person is seeing

Researchers at the University of Tübingen succeed in predicting the color seen by an observer using the activity patterns measured in the visual cortex of other subjects

Structure of clusterin: a key protein against neurodegenerative diseases
Das Clusterinprotein ist als sogenanntes Bändermodell dargestellt. Die flexiblen Peptidketten haben eine wichtige Schutzfunktion, die in dieser Veröffentlichung erstmals gezeigt werden konnte

Crystallographic three-dimensional structure of human clusterin determined for the first time

Bremen Team Deciphers Information Processing
Dr. Eric Drebitz (Mitte) und sein Team beim Sichten von Forschungsergebnissen

Exact moment at which a signal hits receptive nerve cells determines how it is processed

What gives our brains their distinctive wrinkles?
Wie entstehen die Falten im Gehirn? Die Forschenden verglichen Hirnschnitte von Mäusen mit verschiedenen genetischen Veränderungen. Mithilfe farbiger Marker unterschieden sie die oberen und unteren Schichten der Hirnrinde und hoben spezielle Nervenzelltypen hervor.

Study reveals how changes in cell behavior and numbers can drive the formation of distinctive grooves and ridges in the brain.

First mechanism for cognitive disorders in schizophrenia found
Die Bildanalyse zeigt weder eine Veränderung der Gesamtmenge noch morphologische Veränderungen der O4+-Oligodendrozyten-Vorläuferzellen bei SCZ.

Not only neurons, but also oligodendrocytes are essential

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