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Hippocampal theta oscillations in rodents profoundly affect neural activity, spatial coding, synaptic plasticity, and learning. What are the sensory mechanisms governing these slow oscillations? Safaryan and Mehta compared oscillations in…

Oncolytic viruses can selectively infect cancer cells to stimulate cell death and antiviral and antitumor immune responses. Fares et al. report a phase 1 trial in patients with high-grade glioma treated with an engineered oncolytic…

SummaryA man unable to speak after a stroke has produced sentences through a system that reads electrical signals from speech production areas of his brain, researchers report this week. The approach has previously been used in nondisabled…

The effect of respiration on brain activity is much discussed. Neuronal activity is fundamentally rhythmic, so are breathing rhythms entrained by typical neuronal oscillation patterns? Tort et al. hypothesized that breathing frequency aids…

Gliogenesis in the adult mouse brainNeural stem cells in the adult mouse brain can generate both neurons and glia. Exactly where each stem cell is positioned can determine what type of neurons it generates. Delgado et al. show that neural…