Houses with picket fences

Nervous picket fences

omplex nervous system patterning—usually assumed to have coevolved with advanced, centralized nervous systems— may have arisen before nerves consolidated into a central nerve chord, according to Christopher Lowe, John Gerhart (University of California, Berkeley, CA), Marc Kirschner (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA), and colleagues. Their idea runs counter to the prevailing theory of dorsoven...

Vision: The World through Picket Fences

Our visual system must allow us to see the form of objects in motion. Tracking objects of interest stabilises their images on the retina, but is not sufficient, as untracked images move on the retina. This problem is solved by cells tuned in both space and time, combining information about form with information about motion.

Book Reviews: Black Picket Fences, and Voices from Beneath the Veil

De-Fences

The demonstration’s vehicle will be the multimedia performance «DE-FENCES», the outcome of the international «CUT Project», dealing with Europe’s new geography and questioning current «walls» and «separating lines» after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, developed through Research and Residencies in former and present “cut” territories [Berlin, Palestine, Nicosia, Kosovo]...

Mend Your Fences

The intestinal epithelium can be easily disrupted during gut inflammation as seen in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), such as ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease. For a long time, research into the pathophysiology of IBD has been focused on immune cell-mediated mechanisms. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the intestinal epithelium might play a major role in the development and perpetu...