Watching plants switch on genes using a fluorescent protein

Biologists often use green fluorescent protein (GFP) to see what happens inside cells. GFP, which scientists first isolated in jellyfish, is a protein that changes light from one color into another. Attaching it to other ...

Catching a glimpse at enzymes on the job

AAA+ ATPases are a large family of ubiquitous enzymes with multiple tasks, including the remodelling of the cellular proteome, i.e. the ensemble of proteins in a biological cell. A subfamily, so-called unfoldases, recognize, ...

Gas sensors promise advances in Earth science

Rice University has been awarded a $1 million grant by the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop gas-releasing microbial sensors for the study of soil and marine life.

Peering into protein dynamics

Young collaborators at Spallation Neutron Source chemistry lab prep proteins to take neutrons.

Shedding light on a protein, and a future

While on a research co-op in London, Northeastern University senior Brendon Kellner investigated the inner workings of certain proteins through state-of-the-art ultrafast lasers. These lasers generate light pulses for only ...

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