Karl Fernandes

Trying to understand what makes us tick... brains, stem cells, and cool science of all types

[Karl Fernandes @FernandesLab]

@mitodynamics Then I suspect he was incredibly proud of you Heidi. Big hugs.

[Karl Fernandes @FernandesLab]

@Franklandlab @kurthaas4 @Neurophotonics Beautiful talks from @Franklandlab and @MichelCayouette too— an art to making complicated stuff easy to understand!

[PLOS Biology @PLOSBiology]

Why does #exercise reduce #appetite? Because the #hypothalamus heats up! Raised temperature in brain is detected by TRPV1-like thermoreceptors in proopiomelanocortin neurons in arcuate nucleus #PLOSBiology https://t.co/Y3gncTd5dt

[Cell Reports @CellReports]

Microglial landscape rearrangement �� https://t.co/PWYqpDXW7J

[Neuroscience News @NeuroscienceNew]

Transparent Eel-Like Soft Robot Can Swim Silently Underwater
https://t.co/z0N9Vb78Q8
One key innovation was using the salt water in which the robot swims to help generate the electrical forces that propel it.#robotics #neuroscience #science #technology

[Science News @ScienceNews]

Your brain might make new nerve cells well into old age after all. https://t.co/dZAFoH18Ao

[Paul Frankland @Franklandlab]

And so the pendulum swings back... barely three weeks after this https://t.co/pa0Htill1V , there is this: Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging https://t.co/Yd7JCiA85F

[Cell Stem Cell @CellStemCell]

New from @DrMauraBoldrini & Co @Columbia:"Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging."Assessing whole autopsy hippocampi from healthy humans shows preserved neurogenesis in older subjects(up2 age 79) https://t.co/CIUbrttcF2. Stay tuned for commentary & context soon!

[National Geographic @NatGeo]

In the deepest dive ever beneath Antarctic ice, thriving plants and animals are captured on camera https://t.co/E9JrXoVwir

[Cell Metabolism @Cell_Metabolism]

In support of long-standing theories on the benefits of metabolic slowing, Redman et al. report on a 2-year caloric restriction (CR) trial in healthy people and find that CR enhances resting energy efficiency, resulting in decreased oxidative damage: https://t.co/dWM8CKCSHr

[Université de Montréal @UMontreal]

Des chercheurs @UMontreal ont utilisé l’optogénétique, une technologie permettant de contrôler avec précision une population de neurones par un faisceau lumineux. https://t.co/Xyd1JeNGvb

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

Mexican cavefish have the same insulin-receptor mutation that causes health problems and diabetes in human, but the diabetic cavefish thrive https://t.co/ZMVz59zAQq

[CAN ACN @CAN_ACN]

New research @UMontreal Christine Vande Velde lab: Better understanding ALS by looking at how cells change https://t.co/XLzK183MLc Paper in @Brain1878 https://t.co/9FrP6u5Ms5

[Heidi McBride, Ph.D @mitodynamics]

Should be fun. Wish me luck! https://t.co/B0Jv7e0Ndp

[Journal of Cell Biology @JCellBiol]

Nicola Allen and Richard Daneman remember their former mentor Ben Barres, an inspirational neuroscientist who passed away at the end of December https://t.co/wP52zn6AuV

[Michel Cayouette @MichelCayouette]

I wrote this obituary on Ben Barres. Telling a personal story on how Ben welcomed me in his lab, which I think illustrates the kind of person he was. There have been many great obituaries on Ben, but you might learn new things here. Ben Barres (1954-2017) https://t.co/NC01L1rtwC

[Brunet Lab @BrunetLab]

Quiescent neural stem cells have large lysosomes filled with protein aggregates. Could a boost in lysosome function clear aggregates and improve stem cells in old age? Our lab's latest paper is out!

https://t.co/7L3lH4Nkav

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

Dogma states that the hippocampus is one place where neurons are born in humans in adulthood — but new findings question this assumption. To learn more read this fascinating N&V by @jsnsndr
https://t.co/tSOQTgfAVO

[Heidi McBride, Ph.D @mitodynamics]

What an honour to be profiled like this on such an important day for women. Thanks @TheNeuro_MNI! https://t.co/XOZ76WOaIq

[Scientific American @sciam]

Blog: The role of luck in life success is far greater than we realized https://t.co/TY097cUhK4 (By @sbkaufman)