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Brain Control with Light
Watson Lecture PreviewNews Writer: Douglas Smith Viviana Gradinaru (BS '05) might one day be getting inside your head—but in a good way. An assistant professor of biology at Caltech, Gradinaru is...
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Social Synchronicity
New Caltech-led research finds a connection between bonding and matched movementsNews Writer: Katie Neith Humans have a tendency to spontaneously synchronize their movements. For example, the footsteps...
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Research Update: Wordy Worms and Their Eavesdropping Predators
News Writer: Katie NeithNematodes are trapped in the sticky web of a worm-eating fungus. Credit: Sternberg Lab / Caltech For over 25 years, Paul Sternberg has been studying worms—how they develop, why...
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Sorting Out Stroking Sensations
Caltech biologists find individual neurons in the skin that react to massageNews Writer: Katie NeithThis graph represents a quantitative readout of the increases in fluorescence measured with the...
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Visualizing Biological Networks in 4D
A unique microscope invented at Caltech captures the motion of DNA structures in space and timeNews Writer: Katie NeithA DNA structure as seen through the 4D electron microscope invented at...
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Mayo Appointed to National Science Board
News Writer: Katie Neith President Barack Obama has appointed Stephen Mayo, Caltech's William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation Chair of the Division of Biology and Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry, to...
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The First Genetic-Linkage Map
From the Caltech ArchivesNews Writer: Douglas SmithProfessor of Genetics Alfred H. Sturtevant in Caltech's fly room in February, 1949. Photo by Ross Madden, Black Star.Credit: Caltech Archives A...
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Developing Our Sense of Smell
Caltech biologists pinpoint the origin of olfactory nerve cellsNews Writer: Katie NeithImage of 2.5-um thick optical slice through the nose of a zebrafish embryo in which microvillous (green) cells...
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Caltech Senior Wins Gates Cambridge Scholarship
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierCatherine Bingchan Xie, a senior bioengineering major and English minor at Caltech, has been selected to receive a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which will fund her graduate...
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Fifty Years of Clearing the Skies
A Milestone in Environmental ScienceNews Writer: Douglas SmithIn this 1948 photo of the Los Angeles Civic Center at the height of a smog attack, the buildings one block away are barely visible.Credit:...
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Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein’s Life
Watson Lecture PreviewNews Writer: Douglas Smith Professor of Chemistry Shu-ou Shan studies the gears and springs in the molecular machinery of life. She’ll be giving us a guided tour of the cellular...
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Keeping Stem Cells Strong
Caltech biologists show that an RNA molecule protects stem cells during inflammationNews Writer: Katie NeithCredit: Jimmy Zhao / Caltech When infections occur in the body, stem cells in the blood often...
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Beauty and the Brain: Electrical Stimulation of the Brain Makes You Perceive...
Findings may lead to promising ways to treat and study neuropsychiatric disordersNews Writer: Marcus WooBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, and—as researchers have now shown—in the brain as well.The...
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A Stepping-Stone for Oxygen on Earth
Caltech researchers find evidence of an early manganese-oxidizing photosystem News Writer: Katie NeithCaltech graduate student Jena Johnson examines a 2.415 billion-year-old rock in South Africa where...
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New Research Sheds Light on M.O. of Unusual RNA Molecules
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierThe Xist lncRNA (red) recruits proteins responsible for modifying chromatin architecture (green) across the X-chromosome. Xist and its associated proteins coat the entire...
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A Secret to Making Macrophages
Caltech researchers find a key in cell-cycle durationNews Writer: Kimm FesenmaierBlood progenitor cells differentiating in culture. The brightness of green indicates the amount of the regulatory...
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A Home for the Microbiome
Caltech biologists identify, for the first time, a mechanism by which beneficial bacteria reside and thrive in the gastrointestinal tractNews Writer: Katie NeithA section of mouse colon is shown with...
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Team Led by Caltech Wins Second $10 Million Award for Research in Molecular...
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradConceptual representation of programming languages for specifying molecular components and molecular systems, part of the Molecular Programming Project.Credit: Lulu...
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Caltech-led WormBase Project Awarded $14.8 Million by NIH
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierRendering of the adult hermaphrodite worm species C. elegans with the outermost cuticle and hypodermis made transparent. Body wall muscles are shown in green. Neurons appear...
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New Gut Bacterium Discovered in Termite's Digestion of Wood
Caltech researchers find new species of microbe responsible for acetogenesis, an important process in termite nutrition.News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradPhase contrast photomicrograph of a termite...
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