Spineless

• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-27
  ...Bella Galil had been working in Italy, digging through dusty archives for mentions of animals native to the Mediterranean so she could compare them with what exists in that sea today.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-25
  He lives in this world every day; a man whose thoughts are strange and strong and deep needs respite too.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-25
  A man whose youth was darkened by the worst devastation humans have ever wrought provided us with light far more powerful...."When scientists develop methods to help them see things that were once invisible, research always takes a great leap forward."
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-25
  Tsien created fluorescent proteins in all the colors of a fruit salad. He gave them names like mCherry, mStrawberry, mTangerine...This palette of fluorescence allows researchers to mark different proteins with different colors, so they can trace the activities of not just one gene, but multiple different genes as they are switched on and off in cells.The uses for the fluorescent proteins are endless, and they have revolutionized biotechnology.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-25
  GFP was a new beacon in science. It allowed scientists to literally see how cells work.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-25
  While both fluorescence and bioluminescence glow, they are different processes. In bioluminescence, a chemical reaction converts schemical energy to light energy, forming photons where there were none before. In fluorescence, a molecule takes phontons that already exist and changes their color.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-23
  When you spend your life trying to write grants to fund your work, charisma matters a lot.
• SammyRabbit

  2020-07-23
  ...Monty Graham, who worked at Dauphin Island Sea Lab near the tourist town of Gulf Shores. Monty has studied how jellyfish move, how jellyfish eat, what eats jellyfish, how various jellyfish are related to one another, where jellyfish live, and what causes jellyfish population size to change. He even published a paper on how jellyfish can be transported from place to place in the aquarium rocks sold at pet stores. Along with some colleagues, Monty organized the first major conference on jellyfish blooms in 2000, and he has emerged as a leader working to understand global patterns of jellyfish blooms.