Category: 2023
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Monument to Failure: AKA Starting Over
Label Monument to Failure: AKA Starting Over Artist Erica Knorr Description Over the course of two years, I tried to make one set of molecules but was never successful. These are the surviving vials of my failed attempts because I finally cleaned them out of my drawer. Sometimes the best thing you can do for…
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Protein Decoration on Lipid Tubes
Label Protein Decoration on Lipid Tubes Artist Behrouz Ghazi Esfahani Description Protein decoration on lipid nano-tubes is used to overcome air-water interface touch during cryoEM sample preparation and ensure capture of all of the angles from the same protein. Type Electron Microscope and Simulation Artist Affiliation Graduate Student Department Institute of Molecular Biophysics Area of…
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Mouse Heart
Label Mouse Heart Artist Paula Nieto Description We study cardiomyopathies, diseases that affect the cardiac muscle, using mice models to study the pathogenesis of dilated cardiomyopathy and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at the molecular, cellular and organ level. This picture was taken during a cardiomyocyte isolation experiment where we cannulate the aorta and perfuse the heart with…
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Isolated Cardiomyocyte
Label Isolated Cardiomyocyte Artist Aida Rahimi Kahmini Description We are studying the effects of common substances that can impact human cardiovascular health. In this picture, we are showing a cardiomyocyte that has been exposed to nicotine, an active compound found in cigarette smoke. We used fluorescence imaging to capture the cardiomyocyte that was loaded with…
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Mighty War Against the Pandemic of Plastic Consumption
Label Mighty War Against the Pandemic of Plastic Consumption Artist Sonia Kiran Description This piece of art shows the accumulation of plastic particles within human cells. The potential health hazards of plastics in humans are largely unknown; however, they can certainly degrade into micro and nano sizes and enter the human body. This image was…
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A Captivating Display of Protein Crystals
Label A Captivating Display of Protein Crystals Artist Charlisa Whyms Description This photo captures beautiful bioluminescent protein crystals under a microscope. My research aims to understand how proteins do their jobs by determining what they look like (their structure) using X-rays to take a picture of the protein that is packed in the crystal. Type…
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Laurel Precedence
Label Laurel Precedence Artist Adam Campbell Description This is the crude mixture of a reaction I ran on relatively simple molecules to create precedence for doing the reaction on more complex and valuable molecules for reaction development. After getting the information I needed from the crude mixture, I accidentally left it in the back of…
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Unraveling the Mechanisms of HIV-1 Nuclear Import
Label Unraveling the Mechanisms of HIV-1 Nuclear Import Artist Asha Maria Mathew Description The picture features HIV localization inside the TZMbl cell nucleus. Green dots represent the virus, and the nuclear speckle proteins SON and CPSF6 are blue and red in color. We are passionately studying our bit to understand the interaction of HIV-1 with…
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The Edge
Label The Edge Artist Maggie Cooper Description The growing edge of an inorganic precipitate membrane composed entirely of nickel and magnesium hydroxides. Such mineral surfaces exist within the walls of deep-sea hydrothermal vents and on the rocky surfaces of extraterrestrial worlds. These chemical gardens have captivated us since the days of the alchemists, and for…
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X-ray of a Protein!
Label X-ray of a Protein! Artist Madhurima Bhattacharya Description NS2B3 is a pair of molecular scissors used by dengue virus to cleave human protein cGAS so that it can survive and establish infection in the host cell. Here, we have determined the molecular structure of the active site mutant of NS2B3 (on the right). On…