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July 30, 2020

A Software, a Community and a Different Way to Do Science By Susan Reslewic Keatley, Ph.D.

yellow and blue protein complex on left with pink and teal protein complex on right

July 10, 2020

Computing the Egg: The Effort to Calculate Biological Development By Susan Reslewic Keatley, Ph.D.

Wild type ventral furrow (left) and ventral furrow interrupted by ERK signaling (right). Blue arrows indicate the boundary of blue light and the synthetically placed ventral furrow border

June 29, 2020

Plasticity May Make Neurons Vulnerable to Alzheimer’s Disease By Thomas Sumner

Principal neurons of the entorhinal cortex layer II assist with memory and navigation and are among the most vulnerable to Alzheimer’s. Researchers generated a line of mice for studying ECII neurons (highlighted using a green fluorescent protein). The neurons are at such high risk because they frequently remodel, making them prone to fatal dysfunctions, the researchers found.

March 05, 2020

Geneticists Pump the Brakes on DNA, Revealing Key Developmental Process, Princeton University

A fruit fly embryo dotted with fluorescent lights, indicating DNA transcription in progress at various points along the abdomen

December 03, 2019

Unexpected Forces Cause Rotor Proteins to Self-Organize By Susan Reslewic Keatley, Ph.D.

3 panel image of particles assembling into a disk

November 01, 2019

Bioengineer Stanislav Shvartsman Heads CCB’s New Developmental Dynamics Group By Thomas Sumner

Image of genomic instructions and self-organizing physical mechanisms to embryonic development

September 03, 2019

The Stormy Fluid Dynamics of the Living Cell, Physics Today

Fluid dynamics of a living cell

September 02, 2019

Mystery Solved About the Machines That Move Your Genes By Thomas Sumner

An illustration of a kinesin motor molecule walking across a microtubule