(L to R) Richard Branch, Junhua Yuan, Basarab Hosu and Howard Berg The bacterium Escherichia coli decides whether life is getting better or worse by swimming about and…
(L to R) Sharad Ramanathan, Drew Robson, Ben Jordan, Alexander Schier, Patrick Müller, and Katherine Rogers How do zebras get their stripes and leopards their spots? Why is…
(L to R)Joshua R. Sanes and Jeremy Kay The retina is a lot more complicated than a simple camera. In fact, it acts more like a parallel processing…
(L to R) David Jeruzalmi, Danaya Pakotiprapha, and Martin Samuels DNA damage is a fact of life for all living organisms. Some have estimated that each of our…
(L to R) Sebastian Haesler, Naoshige Uchida and Jeremiah Cohen In 1954, Olds and Milner discovered that direct, electrical stimulation of particular brain areas was powerfully rewarding: rats…
(L-R) Derek Lau and Andrew Murray Faithful chromosome segregation during cell division keeps cells alive and keeps cancer and birth defects at bay. A chromosome’s movements during mitosis…
(L-R) M. Durney, V. D'Souza, J. Nagle, Carolina Salguero Retroviruses, like all viruses, rely on host protein machinery to carry out every step in their life cycle. Therefore,…
(L-R)Hunter and Antony Jose A powerful way to treat genetic diseases and combat viral infections would be to turn off disease-associated genes. This can be accomplished using a…
Unlike humans, most animals rely heavily on scents to collect information about their external environment, and in particular assess the friendly or not-so-friendly nature of encounters with other…
(L-R) Vlad Denic, Fei Wang, Matthew Tung Eukaryotic cells target a large fraction of proteins synthesized in the cytosol to a number of different intracellular membrane compartments (organelles).…
