Coming to College Hungry

Hippo - hungry, hungry for melanoma invasion

The acquisition of invasive properties in melanoma is associated with a high proclivity for metastasis, but the underlying pathways are poorly characterized. The Hippo pathway has an important role in organ size control and is dysregulated in some type of tumors. The present study, "Pro-invasive activity of the Hippo pathway effectors YAP and TAZ in cutaneous melanoma" by Nallet-Staub et al., 2...

Hungry Flies Tune to Vinegar

Many molecular signals that represent hunger and satiety in the body have been identified, but relatively little is known about how these factors alter the nervous system to change behavior. Root et al. (2011) report that hunger modulates the sensitivity of specific olfactory sensory neurons in Drosophila and facilitates odor-search behavior.

Addicted to Food, Hungry for Drugs

There is a growing consensus among neuroscientists that people can become addicted to food, and that at least some cases of obesity have addiction as their cause. By contrast, the rest of the world continues to see obesity as either a disease of the metabolism, or as a reckless case of self-harm. Among obesity researchers, there has been a lively debate on the issue of whether obesity ought to ...

Coming to College: Correlations between Loneliness, Homesickness and Spiritual Well-Being

Hungry for Rewards

talk a lot – but we also do so in very different ways. It would appear that the structure of a language is defined by its cultural ancestry and not by the way the brain processes language. A group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen in the Netherlands has analyzed the order of sentence parts in more than 300 languages from four major language families. T...