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Infographic: Engineering Microbiomes with CRISPR

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Christie Wilcox, PhD | | 3 min read

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Amanda Heidt | | 10+ min read

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<em>Chlamydia</em> invades a host cell, forms a membrane-bound vacuole, or inclusion, and then modifies the protein composition of the structure’s membrane. If immune cells detect <em>Chlamydia</em> before it forms the inclusion, they trigger T cells to produce interferon-γ (IFN-γ), a powerful cytokine. IFN-γ activates the protein mysterin (also called RFN213), which attaches ubiquitin to the inclusion membrane, signaling the cell to destroy the inclusion’s contents by dumping them into a lysosome (left). C. trachomatis produces GarD, a protein that integrates into the inclusion membrane itself and somehow prevents mysterin from attaching ubiquitin, allowing the bacterium to evade immune destruction while continuing to multiply and eventually bursting from the cell (right).

Infographic: How Chlamydia Evades Immune Detection

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 2 min read

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Infographic: A Brain Implant Stops Tumor Growth in Rats

Holly Barker, PhD | | 1 min read

(Left) The optic lobes are thought to be involved in visual processing. In this study, researchers found that guppies with larger optic lobes more quickly learned a visual discrimination task—identifying which color well contained food. (Right) The fish telencephalon is thought to be involved in spatial learning, memory, and inhibitory control. Here, the researchers found that a larger telencephalon might enhance the fish’s cognitive flexibility, allowing them to more quickly associate food with a new color after the researchers switched it.

Infographic: Two Guppy Brain Regions May Help Them Learn Tasks

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 1 min read

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Fish Brain Region Size Correlates with Cognitive Flexibility

Natalia Mesa, PhD | | 3 min read

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Infographic: Generating Hundreds of 3D Organoid Images per Hour

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Seeing Science: How to Visually Explain Complex Concepts

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Genetic knockout experiments reveal a role for the protein in forming and maintaining synapses between motor neurons and muscle fibers in mice.

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Catherine Offord | | 1 min read

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Infographic: The Sequencing and Assembly of the Human Genome

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To flag neurons that have experienced genotoxic stress, researchers developed an in vivo sensor using an adeno-associated viral vector, called PRISM. Because a cell’s DNA damage response (DDR)—which activates in response to stressors such as environmental toxins or the buildup of misfolded proteins—also responds to invading pathogens, PRISM has an easier time transfecting cells whose damage response mechanisms are preoccupied with existing DNA damage. Once inside, the virus hijacks the neuron’s DNA replication machinery, which reverts an engineered frameshift mutation in the virus and thereby prompts the production of a fluorescent protein that can be observed via microscopy.

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Amanda Heidt | | 2 min read

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Infographic: Inducing Active Immunity Against Opioid Overdose

Tori Rodriguez | | 8 min read

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Infographic: Chromosome Errors Cause Micronuclei and Drive Cancer

Samuel F. Bakhoum | | 6 min read

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Infographic: Reading Proteins with Nanopores

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