Easily editing a cell’s native DNA to make specific proteins glow is a cell biologist’s dream. The glowing GFP-tagged proteins…
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Read MoreThe old joke has gone flat—Biologists were the science kids in high school who couldn’t do math. But biology is…
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Read MoreCells store extra membrane along pits and protrusions in the cell surface. But how cells regulate those membrane stores is…
Read MoreOrganelles once thought to be independent are coming to light as allies. Research in the last few years has built…
Read MoreIn budding yeast if the mitotic spindle isn’t properly aligned, the cells won’t divide. But whether the cell signaling causes…
Read MoreEven yeast get stressed. The environmental stress response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast used for wine-, beer-, and bread-making and…
Read MoreThere has been a rather large hole in our understanding of how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the cell’s protein and…
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