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Glowing Stem Cell Structures Light a Path Toward Understanding

December 4, 2016

Getting a clearer view inside a normal cell is a critical part of understanding what goes wrong when disease sets…

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JCB’s First Alan Hall Travel Award Sends Hopkins Grad Student to ASCB 2016

December 2, 2016
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The spirit of Alan Hall is sending grad student Bram Lambrus to San Francisco this week to present a poster…

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A Scientist Walks Into an Elevator—Make a 60-Second Selfie of Your Best Science Pitch and Win at ASCB 2016

November 14, 2016

The premise of the One-Minute Elevator Speech Contest https://www.ascb.org/2016meeting/elevator-speech-contest/ is simple: The elevator door closes and you’ve got a trapped…

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Cell News—Kinetochore Can Swivel to Assemble the Mitotic Apparatus

October 31, 2016

Few things light up a cell biologist’s heart like the ingenious assembly of the mitotic spindle. Contemplating the intricacy of…

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McKinley and Sheltzer to Receive 2016 Bernfield and Gilula Awards

October 6, 2016

  Kara McKinley, now a postdoc in Ron Vale’s lab at the University of California, San Francisco, will receive the 2016…

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Cell News—Nervous Wreck coordinates remodeling, at least in neurons

September 21, 2016

One of the joys of fly genetics is the tradition of whimsical naming by generations of imaginative Drosophila researchers who…

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Cell News—How the formidable formins close the gap on wounds

September 19, 2016

The formins are a bustling family of cellular proteins involved in all sorts of basic biology from development to tissue…

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A Missing Influence in Keeping Diversity Within the Academy?

September 8, 2016
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A new study of science PhDs who embarked on careers between 2004 and 2014 showed that while nearly two-thirds chose…

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Cell News—Taking better aim with CRISPR

August 31, 2016

CRISPR/Cas9 has rapidly become the wonder tool of cell biology, giving researchers the ability to slice and dice genomes with…

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Cell News—Super-resolution microscopy technique sees nuclear proteins flip

August 30, 2016

A number of rare diseases, including Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy and Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, are linked to the disruption of nuclear…

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