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Unlocking the Chemistry of Life
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradIn just the span of an average lifetime, science has made leaps and bounds in our understanding of the human genome and its role in heredity and health—from the first...
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Identification Tags Define Neural Circuits
News Writer: Lori DajoseInteractions between Dprs and DIPs mediate connectivity in the fly brain. Dpr-expressing neurons (yellow) connect with DIP-expressing neurons (red) in the optic lobe.Credit:...
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A Healthy Start
Science and medicine, it would seem, have always gone hand in hand. But for centuries, they were actually two very disparate fields. Identifying a need for "investigators who are well trained in both...
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Rosens Recharge Support for Bioengineering
News Writer: Stacey HongCaltech board chair emeritus and longtime Compaq chairman Benjamin M. (Ben) Rosen (BS '54) and his wife, Donna, have made a bequest commitment to advance scientific exploration...
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Delivering Genes Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierUsing a new selection method, Caltech researchers have evolved the protein shell of a harmless virus, AAV9, so that it can more efficiently cross the blood brain barrier and...
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Considering the Future
Science and Society conference to honor Nobel Laureate Ahmed ZewailCan we find life on other planets? Can we bridge the economic divide between rich and poor? Can we engineer the human body to live...
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Caltech Biologists Identify Gene That Helps Regulate Sleep
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierThis image shows a larval zebrafish brain following overexpression of Nmu in which neurons that express the neuropeptide CRH are labeled green and neurons that express cfos,...
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Learning to Program Cellular Memory
News Writer: Kimm FesenmaierThis image shows how individual cells respond to recruitment of EED, one of four chromatin regulators tested by the group that silence, or turn off, gene expression. The...
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Rothenberg Wins Feynman Prize
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradEllen Rothenberg, Caltech's Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology.Credit: Lance Hayashida/CaltechThe 2016 Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching...
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Ten Years of DNA Origami
News Writer: Lori DajoseDNA origami smiley faces, each 1/1000 the width of a human hair, demonstrate that virtually any shape can be folded from DNA. (Scale bar: 100 nanometers)Credit: Paul W.K....
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Quintessentially Caltech
Credit: Chris SabanpanHow best to recognize Caltech's own Ahmed Zewail, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and professor of physics, and director of the Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast...
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An Up-Close View of Bacterial "Motors"
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradHow bacteria make a grappling hook for propulsionCredit: Science/AAASBacteria are the most abundant form of life on Earth, and they are capable of living in diverse...
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Biochemists Solve the Structure of Cell's DNA Gatekeeper
News Writer: Ker ThanComposite structure of the symmetric core of the nuclear pore complex, shown in a cartoon representation. The composite structure was generated by sequential unbiased searches for...
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Midnight Blue: A New System for Color Vision
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradHow a mouse might experience color. On a background of clean mouse bedding are two dishes containing bedding soiled with urine (left) and a mix of plant seeds...
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Rerouting Cancer
News Writer: Marcus WooFor the cancer glioblastoma, molecular signaling through the cancer cells supports tumor growth. This signaling is represented by traffic flow. A common therapeutic strategy is...
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Mapping Neurons to Improve the Treatment of Parkinson's
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradUntangling the tangled webs inside our brains: the different colors represent pathways involving different cells that instruct diverse behaviors. Using optogenetics...
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When Beneficial Bacteria Knock But No One is Home
News Writer: Jessica Stoller-ConradBacteroides fragilis and intestinal epithelial cells shown as an overview tomogram with the modeled bacterium indicated with a black box (left, fig. A). The model...
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DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices
News Writer: Lori DajosePaul W. RothemundCredit: Photo courtesy of P. RothemundLiving things use DNA to store the genetic information that makes each plant, bacterium, and human being unique. The...
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A Feeling Touch
Using funding from the BRAIN Initiative, Caltech biologists are developing neuroprosthetics to bring tactile sensations to the users of robotic arms.News Writer: Katie NeithRichard Andersen, James G....
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Oka Receives McKnight Award
News Writer: Robert PerkinsYuki Oka, assistant professor of biologyCredit: CaltechYuki Oka, assistant professor of biology, has been named one of six recipients of the 2016 McKnight Scholars Award. The...
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