100 Years Biochemical Sciences Tutorial
(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).…
Brain functions, such as language, are shaped by experience during windows of heightened plasticity in early life. For example, children raised in an English- speaking environment will easily…
(L-R) John Koschwanez and Andrew Murray Many unicellular organisms secrete enzymes that release nutrients from their environment. But most of the nutrients can't be captured by the cell's…
Erin K. O'Shea and Xu Zhou Gene expression is controlled by a class of proteins called transcription factors. These proteins usually bind to short 6-8 base pair DNA…
A fundamental question in developmental biology is how multi-potent cells choose a fate. While we know a lot about how cell states are maintained through growing amounts of…
