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DESTRUCTION ON DEMAND [DENIC LAB]

(l to r) Vlad Denic, Roarke Kamber, and Chris Shoemaker The modern urbanite doesn’t bother with the bus – she taps her phone and meets a personal driver…

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TWO NEGATIVES MAKE A POSITIVE [MANGO LAB]

Stephen Von Stetina (l) and Susan Mango Polarity is all around us – in our batteries, in our politics, and most beautifully in our cells. Cell polarity is…

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RADIO BROADCASTING IN CELLS [O’SHEA LAB]

Anders Sejr Hansen To survive, cells must monitor their environments and elicit appropriate and timely responses to external stresses such as nutrient deprivation. In general, cells achieve this…

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FINDING OF SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN BDELLOID ROTIFERS REMOVES WHAT HAD BEEN A PROBLEM FOR EVOLUTIONARY THEORY [MESELSON LAB]

(l to r) Matthew Meselson, Ana Signorovitch, and Eugene Gladyshev; (Jae Hur not shown) Nearly all species of animals and plants reproduce sexually, either exclusively or alternating with…

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CHROMOSOMES AS MECHANICAL OBJECTS [KLECKNER LAB]

We have suggested that chromosomes should be viewed as macroscopic mechanical objects whose functions are governed by accumulation, release and redistribution of mechanical stress.  We have proposed specifically…

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HARNESSING THE POWER OF AMAZON’S CLOUD IN A NEW ERA FOR STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY [LESCHZINER LAB]

(l) Andres Leschziner and Michael Cianfrocco Structural biology is currently undergoing a revolution: single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has recently realized its potential for routinely determining the structures of…

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WIRED TO ESCAPE [SCHIER AND ENGERT LABS]

(l) Alex Schier, and Alix Lacoste Knock on a tank of fish and you may observe that the animals suddenly change position. Blink, and you missed it. When…

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WHY SOME AXONS REGENERATE BETTER THAN OTHERS [SANES LAB]

Recovery from injury to the mammalian brain or spinal cord is notoriously poor, and a big part of the problem lies in the limited ability of damaged neurons…

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