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Students in Bioengineering Course Take Inspiration from Nature
News Writer: Cynthia EllerCredit: Lance Hayashida/CaltechA new class in bioengineering debuted this term at Caltech: "Exploring Biological Principles Through Bio-Inspired Design" (BE 107). The class...
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Sniffing Out Answers: A Conversation with Markus Meister
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierMarkus Meister, the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological SciencesCredit: Lance Hayashida/CaltechBlindfolded and asked to distinguish between a rose and,...
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Mosquitoes Use Smell to See Their Hosts
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradTo find a human host, mosquitoes face the challenging task of integrating sensory cues that are separated in space and time. This sensory integration happens as a...
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NSF BRAIN Funding Awarded to Caltech Neuroscientist
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradRichard Andersen, the James G. Boswell Professor of NeuroscienceCredit: Seth HansenOn August 12, in support of President Obama's Brain Research through Advancing...
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Caltech Chemists Solve Major Piece of Cellular Mystery
Team determines the architecture of a second subcomplex of the nuclear pore complex News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierView full-size imageCredit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech and the Hoelz Laboratory/CaltechNot...
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Making Nanowires from Protein and DNA
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradCo-crystal structure of protein-DNA nanowires. The protein-DNA nanowire design is experimentally verified by X-ray crystallography.Credit: Yun (Kurt) Mou, Jiun-Yann...
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An Antibody That Can Attack HIV in New Ways
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradBroadly neutralizing antibodies to HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein are being evaluated as therapeutics to prevent or treat HIV-1 infection. Structural analysis of one...
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Bar-Coding Technique Opens Up Studies Within Single Cells
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierThe sequential labeling technique allows researchers to unambiguously identify different molecules within a cell. In this simple example, six distinct mRNA molecules are...
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Flowing Electrons Help Ocean Microbes Gulp Methane
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradElectron microscopy (left), and nanoSIMS analyses (right) of slices of individual microbial consortia allowed for unambiguous identification and analysis of thousands...
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Capturing the Right Odors to Study the Brain
Hong and colleagues aim to reveal neural mechanisms related to olfactionNews Writer: Kimm FesenmaierThe compact size of the fly brain makes it possible to visualize neural activity across an entire...
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Long-Term Contraception in a Single Shot
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierAntibody binding to the egg zona pellucida (indicated in blue), a binding site for sperm, results in infertility. Credit: Bruce Hay/CaltechCaltech biologists have developed...
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Understanding Olfaction: An Interview with Elizabeth Hong
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradElizabeth Hong, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, works on the two-photon laser scanning microscope in her lab. Credit: Lance Hayashida/CaltechYou walk by a...
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Cells Rhythmically Regulate Their Genes
News Writer: Adam HadhazyA static picture of budding yeast cells expressing fluorescent protein fused Msn2 (green) and Mig1 (red). Each individual spot of green or red signal represents nuclear...
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Building a Microscope to Search for Signs of Life on Other Worlds
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierFor the first deployment of the instrument in Greenland, the team investigated sea ice just behind the Nuuk Municipal Pool. It was a warm day for Greenland, so finding ice...
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When Harry Met Arnold
A Milestone in ChemistryNews Writer: Douglas SmithHarry B. Gray, Caltech's Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and founding director of the Beckman Institute.Credit: Lance Hayashida/CaltechOn...
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Yuki Oka Awarded Mallinckrodt Grant
News Writer: Nehaly ShahYuki Oka, assistant professor of biologyCredit: Lance Hayashida/Caltech Office of Strategic CommunicationsYuki Oka, an assistant professor of biology, has been awarded a grant...
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Choosing the T-Cell Profession: Higher Education for Stem Cells
Watson Lecture PreviewNews Writer: Douglas SmithImmature T cells in different stages of development. The cells fluorescing red have activated the stem-cell growth factor receptor called Kit. The green...
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Neurons Encoding Hand Shapes Identified in Human Brain
Erik Sorto controlling a grip switch with a robot hand to make a smoothie.Credit: Spencer Kellis/CaltechNeural prosthetic devices, which include small electrode arrays implanted in the brain, can allow...
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Viral Videos (and Bacterial Ones, Too)
News Writer: Ramanuj BasuCredit: Jensen Lab/CaltechGrant Jensen is a high-powered movie producer. You won't see his name on any of this fall's Hollywood blockbusters, but in the field of cell biology,...
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Popping Microbubbles Help Focus Light Inside the Body
News Writer: Ker ThanArtistic representation of optical focusing on ultrasonically destroyed microbubble. Popping of a microbubble by ultrasound induces optical field change that can be detected by the...
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