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SEEING IS BELIEVING: FLUORESCENCE
Fluorescence generates vibrant colors that allows us to tell one cell from another, and even one biomolecule from another. This has led to great advances in our understanding of immunology by allowing us a peek into biological interactions at the cellular level.
LIVING BY THE CLOCK: HOW CELLS TELL TIME
An overview of how your cells build molecular clocks to maintain the daily cycles of your life.
KEEP CALM AND METHYLATE ON
When cells are exposed to acute stresses they react with a series of molecular events collectively termed the 'cellular stress response.' Scientists in the Jaffrey group have revealed a novel method to fine-tuning the specific production of stress response proteins in a process they call m6A cap-independent translation.
BIOLOGY'S NEXT TOP MODEL: ORGANOIDS
Human beings make for great scientists, but crummy biological test subjects. Think about it for a minute—if you were a researcher, how would you study an organism that is genetically diverse and takes decades to mature? These are only a couple of the many challenges that biologists face when studying human health and disease.