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To Sting, or Not to Sting? [Bellono Lab]
Most ocean swimmers are aware, either through warnings from others or firsthand experience, of the painful, itching and burning sensation that can come from an encounter with a…
Going Back to a Greener Lab [Murthy Lab]
Another day in the lab, another trashcan full of disposable plastic. Especially on days when experiments don’t work, this hidden cost of doing scientific research becomes particularly frustrating.…
Andrew Murray, The Easy Way is Hard Enuff
As a graduate student, more than thirty years ago, I enjoyed doing experiments so much that I would go into lab on Sunday mornings secure in the knowledge…
Learning Quickly about What is Rewarding [Murthy Lab]
There is widespread interest in many forms of learning among neuroscientists, as well as the artificial intelligence community. In particular, one type of learning, known as reinforcement learning,…
Matthew Meselson Weighs in on the Importance of Wearing Masks
Today, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a brief correspondence by MCB faculty member Matthew Meselson, who is an expert on bioweapons and aerosol dispersal of…
The (Evolutionary) Success Story of ABC Transporters [Gaudet- and Murray Labs]
Molecular machines underlie the vast diversity of the living world and are the result of millions of years of selection to optimize them for particular biochemical tasks. If…
Evolution Can Quickly Change Cells’ Deepest Foundations [Murray Lab]
Fumasoni and Murray show how evolution can quickly and reproducibly change conserved features involved in the maintenance of genomes in response to constitutive problems affecting DNA replication. Four…
Your Neighbors Dictate What You Can Do [Murray Lab]
Biological function, such as DNA replication and chromosome segregation, depend on the complex interactions among many different proteins. As a biological function changes during evolution, the network of…
Microglia Help New Neurons Make the Right Connections [Murthy Lab]
Historically, it was thought that the brain lacked an immune system because the blood-brain barrier prevents the entry of immune cells from the rest of the body. However,…
