The Cell Picture Show
The Cell Picture Show is a place to showcase striking images in cell, developmental, and molecular biology; a place to learn about cutting-edge research with beautiful images. You can contribute your lab’s most artistic or interesting images obtained from your day-to-day research for consideration in an upcoming slideshow. We encourage everyone to share this with your friends, loved ones, teachers and especially kids. Visit the Website! Hippocampus by Tamily Weissman, Harvard University “Brainbow” mice are engineered with a gene that includes three different fluorescent proteins, but only one color is actually expressed from each copy of the DNA construct. Pairs of “incompatible lox sites” are nested around different portions of the gene, allowing for recombination…
Testing kids for heart conditions
HOUSTON (KTRK) — Every year we see the stories of the tragic and sudden deaths of healthy young athletes, often on the playing field. Now, Houston heart specialists are offering middle school kids something phenomenal: a free MRI to check their hearts. High school football player Chris Pichon was only 14 when he dropped to his knees and died. Kailynn Bioclair of Hitchcock was only 13 when she died on the basketball court. In Orange, Texas, high school quarterback Reggie Garret had just thrown a touchdown pass when he collapsed and later died. And who can forget the game winning basket by Michigan player Wes Leonard, who then collapsed and died. All had lethal heart…
‘Tooth fairy palace’
In the chilly studio of Liverpool-based artist Gina Czarnecki, a fantasy palace has taken shape. It is a riot of towers and tendrils, resembling something out of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. It has been christened the Tooth Fairy Palace, but like many fairy tales, all is not as it seems as it has been designed to raise awareness about stem cell research and its implications. The palace will gradually become encrusted with real teeth – the teeth of children. These teeth can be a source of stem cells, the focus of pioneering and sometimes controversial research. “…this palace evolved from conversations about stem cells, but also about truth and illusion, and about…
Do You Know What Nano Means?
2011 Webby Award for Animation in the Online Film & Video Category Produced by: Science Alberta Foundation By Artist: Daniel Gies Nano may mean small, very small, but when it comes to making your body work it is big, very big. If your fingernail is about one millimeter thick, and a nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter, you can imagine that there are a lot of nanomaterials making up that small space. Source Recommend on FacebookTell a friend
