A chromosome is gradually unwinding until the DNA double helix is visible. Proteins interact with parts of the DNA. Antibodies are attached to these protein-DNA interacting regions.

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Chromatin Immunoprecipitation Reveals DNA-Protein Interactions

Proteins interact with DNA to regulate many vital processes in cells. Nearly 40 years ago, researchers developed a way to map these molecular connections.

The image shows six different panels containing cells. On each panel, the cells are labelled using a different fluorescent dye that highlights features of a specific organelle within the cells.

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Cell Painting: Exploring the Richness of Biological Images

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A Sticky Situation: Recombinant DNA Technology

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X-ray crystallography of penicillin

Crystal-Clear Penicillin, 1945

Brittany McWilliams | | 4 min read

In urban bathhouses in Germany and the surrounding low countries, bathhouse proprietors, known as baders, provided visitors with basic medical care. To draw blood, baders would scratch the skin before placing a heated cupping glass over the incision to extract blood and purge the body. Other tools associated with baders, including dental forceps and an amputation saw, hint at further services they provided.

Bathing Through the Ages: 1300–1848

Clare Watson | | 2 min read

Glass blown and sculpted model of the golden bellapple (<em>Passiflora laurifolia</em>)

Glass Menagerie, 1863–1936

Dan Robitzski | | 3 min read

Glass-blown and sculpted model of the sea anemone (<em>Phymactis florida</em>)

Slideshow: The Lifelike Glass Models of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

Dan Robitzski | | 3 min read

A building behind trees

Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships

Andy Carstens | | 6 min read

A photo of soybean pods

The Right Chemistry, 1935

Catherine Offord | | 3 min read

A lithograph of a woman sitting up in bed while a nurse attends to her.

Death by Nostalgia, 1688

Lisa Winter | | 4 min read

Formed of various flowers, this personification cartoon of a female botanist, painted by George Spratt, was pasted into Allen’s copy of The English Flora.

La Botaniste, 1810–1865

Sukanya Charuchandra | | 2 min read

In one of the only known photos of Abraham Lincoln taken on the day of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln can be seen seated, hatless, just below and to the right of the flag. Lincoln began developing symptoms of smallpox on the train home to Washington, DC.

Presidential Pox, 1863

Annie Melchor | | 3 min read

Photograph of drought land due to climate change

An Earthy-Smelling Substance, 1964

Lisa Winter | | 3 min read

Photograph of a waterfall

Falling Water, Rising Rocks, 1834

Catherine Offord | | 2 min read

A black and white photo of two sets of flowers in test tubes, one of which is wilting

Posies, Poison, and Periods, Early 1920s

Annie Melchor | | 3 min read

Birth of Midwifery, Circa 100 CE

Lisa Winter | | 3 min read

two black-and-white microscope images, one with a few black dots, the other with many rod-shaped bacteria

Identifying a Killer, 1895

Catherine Offord | | 4 min read

Stamping Out Science, 1948

Catherine Offord | | 4 min read

Bile and Potatoes, 1921

Jef Akst | | 3 min read

Identity Crisis, 1906

Catherine Offord | | 4 min read

Viral Discoveries, 1929

Max Kozlov | | 3 min read

Introducing Inoculation, 1721

Max Kozlov | | 4 min read

Action at a Distance, Circa Early 1950s

Diana Kwon | | 3 min read

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