The Senses
March 9, 2020
Curious Minds: How Do Flies See in Color?
New research from two young scientists shows how the brains of flies, like the brains of humans, create the mental illusion of color.
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Scientists Identify Gene That First Slows, Then Accelerates, ALS in Mice
From the lab of Tom Maniatis, PhD, Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
Representative confocal microscope image of the ventral horn of the spinal cord from an ALS mouse. Several microglial cells (green) infiltrate the spinal cord as ALS disease progresses. Single molecule FISH detected IRF7 (an interferon-inducible gene) RNA molecules (red) in microglia and other cells (Credit: Valeria Gerbino/Maniatis lab/Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute).
