(L to R)Alexander Schier and Jason Rihel Many psychiatric drugs were discovered decades ago through serendipity. For example, a tuberculosis drug called iproniazid also happened to make people…
(L to R) Linda Turner, Rongjing Zhang, and Howard C. Berg When grown on a rich medium on agar, many bacteria elongate, produce more flagella, and swim in…
(L to right) Gregorio Valdez and Joshua R. Sanes The great baseball player, Lou Gehrig, gave his name to the neurodegenerative disease that killed him, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.…
Takao Hensch A new study, published in this week's Nature, that helps tease apart the role of single cells in the neural circuit controlling vision is helping researchers…
Prof. Engert (second from left) and Dr. Abeanu (right) with a few students from the course. Dr. Albeanu (left) and Prof. Engert making an adjustment to the microscope.…
A moment’s introspection reveals that our perceptions and actions are strongly affected by our behavioral states. Whether you are sleepy, awake, distracted or vigilant will affect how you…
Forty-one years ago, Jim Wang discovered the first of a family of enzymes crucial to the disentanglement of DNA strands or double helices during various cellular processes…
More than a century ago, famous neuroanatomist and histologist Ramon y Cajal proposed the idea that a neuron receives information through its extensive dendritic tree and sends it…
(L to R) Areez Mody and Sharad Ramanathan During evolution certain gene families have increased in number following gene duplication by repeatedly finding novel functions even though random…
Kumaran S. Ramamurthi and Richard Losick Although bacteria are much more architecturally simple than eukaryotic cells, it has been evident for over a decade now that they are…
