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Penning the Dynamic Lives of Proteins

Two scientists embarked on a new adventure to write and illustrate a book on nature’s molecular machines for general audiences.

A black robot hand holding a red, mesh-like model of a heart.

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Building Bioartificial Hearts, One Beat at a Time

Kevin Tran, a graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and codeveloper of CraftCells, wears a virtual reality headset. He’s standing in front of a screen projecting his view of the CraftCells Minecraft world.

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CraftCells: 3D Cell Biology Reaches Broad Audiences with Minecraft

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Finding Bio-inspiration in Slug-Made Hydrogels

Deanna MacNeil, PhD | | 3 min read

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Bear Necessities: Insights from Grizzly Bears

Charlene Lancaster, PhD | | 4 min read

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Getting Creative with an Extreme Animal Model

Niki Spahich, PhD | | 3 min read

A microscopy image of a retinal organoid graft months after transplantation into the eye of a rat with retinal degeneration. This microscopy image, taken with a Zeiss LSM900 confocal microscope, shows the photoreceptors of the graft organized in rosettes, with their outer segments staining red for rhodopsin and the transplant’s nuclei labeled with a green Ku80 stain. Additionally, DAPI stain (blue) marks both rat and human nuclei.

A Vision of the Future: Restoring Eyesight via Transplantation

Charlene Lancaster, PhD | | 4 min read

A merged brightfield and GFP fluorescence image showing human cells in rats after engraftment

Patching Up Damaged Guts with Healing Cells

Aparna Nathan, PhD | | 4 min read

Microscopy image of a 120-day old human skin organoid derived from pluripotent stem cells with tentacle-like hair follicles. The green Keratin 5 stain labels the outer layer of the follicles and the epidermis, while the red PMEL stain marks the melanocytes.

Tracking Tissue Development to Inspire Regenerative Therapies

Niki Spahich, PhD | | 3 min read

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The Guardians of Science in Sci-Fi Movies

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 7 min read

Two people sit across from each other at a desk looking at a computer monitor with a simple data figure. The farther person thinks about multiple more complicated data sets.

Unearthing Stories from the Data Ecosystem

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 6 min read

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Zeroing In on the Causes of Endometriosis

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

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The Silent Pandemic of Antifungal Resistance

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

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Playing Games to Learn Cell Biology

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

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Rewilding Urban Spaces Boosts Immune Health

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

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Spotlighting the Science in Sci-Fi

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

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From Marmosets to Menopause: A Primate Perspective

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

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Speaking Science on a Stopwatch

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 2 min read

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Microbial Tales from the Crypt

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

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How Can Researchers Be Good Science Mentors?

Shelby Bradford, PhD | | 3 min read

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Spelunking for Microbes

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

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The Soundtrack of Science

Laura Tran, PhD | | 2 min read

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From Lab Coat to Legislation

Danielle Gerhard, PhD | | 2 min read

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