100 Years Biochemical Sciences Tutorial
Development paper MCB authors Josh Sanes and Michael Fox The synapse is the heart of the nervous system, the site at which information is processed and passed between…
Jack Strominger A paper from the Strominger lab sheds interesting new light on the regulation of maturation of dendritic cells. (Santambrogio, L., et al., “Involvement of caspase cleaved…
Authors (left to right) Eugenie Shieh, Adam Castoreno, Larissa Jarzylo and Axel Nohturfft The ingredients of a human cell include about 100,000 different proteins, 500 kinds of fat,…
Authors Chad Cowan, Doug Melton and Kevin Eggan Most cells in our tissues have a limited ability to become other cell types in the body and therefore are…
Co-authors Joo-Seop Park and Andy McMahon(three authors not pictured) Water and salt balance in our bodies and removal of toxic wastes is carried out by a high powered…
Authors Toshihiko Hosoya, Stephen A. Baccus and Markus MeisterOur eyes report the visual world to the brain, but not very faithfully. Instead, the retina creates a cartoonist's sketch of…
Real-time movie of E. coli cells swimming in 10 micron wide, 1.5 micron high, poly(dimethylsiloxane) microchannels with soft, agar floors. The majority of cells are swimming on the…
Figure 1: E. coli cell just prior to cell division with classic terminus-in / origin-out configuration. Origin (blue) and terminus (red) loci were visualized by FISH, and the…
Three of the paper's authors (left to right): Tianhua Zhou, Ming Lei and Sam Yan It is now widely accepted that cancer arises at least partly due to…
Richard Losick and Jonathan Dworkin In 1918, German embryologist Hans Spemann took an early newt embryo and removed some cells that were destined to become skin. He transplanted…
