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ASCB Ensures Access to Conferences for Federal Scientists

December 16, 2016

Otto von Bismarck is reported to have said, “Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being…

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Accepting the Challenge of the Nobel Prize

December 16, 2016
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The Nobel Prize is awarded to individuals whose entire life’s work has culminated into knowledge that can be utilized to…

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Distill. Get to the Point: Winner of ASCB Elevator Speech Contest Reveals All

December 15, 2016

Six months ago, if you’d asked any of my family or friends whether I had a chance to win the…

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Career Perspectives: Erin Piazza, associate bioinformaticist

December 12, 2016
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Please describe your current position. My position is an interesting niche within bioinformatics, where I get to leverage my understanding…

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Membrane Fission: It Takes a Crowd

December 8, 2016

Biologists have long believed that cell membrane fission occurs after epsin molecules wedge themselves into the membrane’s surface, causing small…

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Leveraging the Ever-Growing CRISPR-Cas9 Biology Toolkit

December 7, 2016

When CRISPR-Cas9 came on the scene in early 2013, the talk swirling around it focused on embryonic gene editing or…

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On the Way to Causing Microcephaly, Zika Blocks Centriole Biogenesis

December 7, 2016

Although the Zika virus tends to cause few, if any, symptoms in the adults it infects, its effects on embryos…

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ASCB 2016 Elevator Speech Video Contest Winners: What Amazon.com Can Teach Us about Cell Protein Delivery Systems

December 7, 2016
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You can buy almost anything on Amazon.com but Steven DelSignore, a postdoc at Brandeis University found a cellular metaphor, free…

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Quality Control

December 7, 2016

Research in biology is driven by the constant tension between what we know (much) and what we don’t (much more). Take the…

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Figuring Out the Folds: Biomimicry and Tissue Origami

December 6, 2016

If we could engineer human organs and other tissues, we could move beyond the need for donor organs and perhaps…

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