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ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES: YOUR BODY'S HOMELAND SECURITY
How do we survive infections when some types of bacteria can double their population as quickly as a run of a sitcom episode (twenty minutes) while our adaptive immune system takes a few days to produce antibodies and T cells in our defense? What defenses does our body use in the meantime to keep the infection under control?
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.