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New Views on What the Cell’s Parts Can Do
Studying some of the most well-tread territory in science can turn up surprising new findings. Take, for example, the cell. You may have read in textbooks how the cell’s parts look and function during...
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Finding Adventure: Blake Wiedenheft’s Path to Gene Editing
Blake Wiedenheft Grew up in: Fort Peck, Montana Fields: Microbiology, biochemistry, structural biology Job site: Montana State University Secret talent: Being a generalist; enjoying many different...
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Another Piece to a Century-Old Evolutionary Puzzle
After mating about 55,000 pairs of fruit flies and sifting through 333,000 daughter flies, a research team found six sons that each had mutations in the same gene that helped make two fruit fly...
View ArticleThe Proteasome: The Cell’s Trash Processor in Action
Our cells are constantly removing and recycling molecular waste. On the occasion of Earth Day, we put together this narrated animation to show you one way cells process their trash. The video features...
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Visualizing Skin Regeneration in Real Time
More than 70 Skinbow colors distinguish hundreds of live cells from a tiny bit (0.0003348 square inches) of skin on the tail fin of an adult zebrafish. The bottom image shows the cells on the outer...
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Ticks, Mice and Microbes—Studying Disease Spread
Credit: Oscar Gonzalez (Diuk-Wasser’s husband) Maria Diuk-Wasser Hometown: Buenos Aires, Argentina Childhood dream job: Veterinarian Hobbies: Hiking and gardening with her son (age 10) and daughter...
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Cool Video: Watching Bacteria Turn Virulent
Your browser does not support iframes. Researchers created an apparatus to study quorum sensing, a communication system that allows some bacteria to cause dangerous infections. Their findings suggest...
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Viral Views: New Insights on Infection Strategies
The following images show a few ways in which cutting-edge research tools are giving us clearer views of viruses—and possible ways to disarm them. The examples, which highlight work involving HIV and...
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CRISPR Serves Up More than DNA
The marine bacterium Marinomonas mediterranea uses a CRISPR system to spot invading RNAs and store a memory of the invasion event in its genome. Research team member Antonio Sanchez-Amat was the first...
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Demystifying General Anesthetics
When Margaret Sedensky, now of Seattle Children’s Research Institute, started as an anesthesiology resident, she wasn’t entirely clear on how anesthetics worked. “I didn’t know, but I figured someone...
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