Signaling pathways are an ever present force in every animal’s life. During development,
these pathways provide critical cell-cell communication required to coordinate the activities of …

… Gayo-Avello, D. Don’t turn social media into another ‘Literary Digest’ poll. Commun. …
Michael D. Gordon (mdgordon@umich.edu) is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Entrepreneurial …

Tastes elicit innate behaviors critical for directing animals to ingest nutritious substances and
reject toxic compounds, but the neural basis of these behaviors is not understood. Here, we …

Mating induces changes in the receptivity and egg-laying behavior in Drosophila females,
primarily due to a peptide pheromone called sex peptide which is transferred with the sperm …

People homozygous for mutations in the Niemann-Pick type C1 (NPC1) gene have physiological
defects, including excess accumulation of intracellular cholesterol and other lipids, that …

Don R. Swanson has undertaken a program of research to use the published medical literature
as a source of discoveries. We have attempted to replicate his discovery of a connection …

We report experiments that use lexical statistics, such as word frequency counts, to discover
hidden connections in the medical literature. Hidden connections are those that are unlikely …

… Gordon and Lindsay used to determine intermediate literatures were so strongly correwe
selected the Gordon … This research was conducted while Michael Gordon was on sabbatical at …

Regulating the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) family of transcription factors is of critical importance
to animals, with consequences of misregulation that include cancer, chronic inflammatory …

Synapses are fundamental units of communication in the brain. The prototypical synapse-organizing
complex neurexin-neuroligin mediates synapse development and function and is …