NIGMS Biomedical Beat Cool Movie: Glow-in-the-Dark Salamanders. Salamanders glow green and blue under ultraviolet light, showing off GFP—a fluorescent protein that has become one of...
This course teaches students the underlying physiology of crucial human organ systems and how to record the biological signals which dictate how they perform.
Math from the Heart: Simulating Stent Design and Coating (Includes Captions) August 23, 2010. Modeling stents—tiny mesh tubes used to hold blood vessels open—could improve...
Cool Video: Leading Cells with Light (Includes Captions) September 16, 2009. Watch a cell ripple toward a beam of light that turns on a movement-related...
Cool Video: Blinking Bacteria (Includes Captions) January 20, 2010. Genes inserted into E. coli cells turn a fluorescent protein on and off at regular intervals,...
Stretch Detectors: Modeling Contractile Forces (Includes Captions) October 15, 2009. Researchers build a microscopic scaffold and a computer model to study how our tissues stretch...
Structure of a pair of linked CXCR4 molecules (blue and gold) bound by loop-shaped peptide inhibitors (red and magenta). Animation courtesy of Gye Won Han...
National Academy of Engineering 2011 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium September 19-21, 2011 Google, Inc. Mountain View, California Ultra Low Power Biomedical and Bio-inspired Systems...
It may look like a gyrating, Skittle-eating cloud, but it actually represents the active site of sulfite oxidase, an enzyme essential for normal neurological development...
