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A new method from @hirofunabiki.bsky.social dramatically improved cryo-EM’s imaging capabilities, enabling visualization of molecules that are very rare, very small, or hard to produce naturally—including some viruses. #RockefellerScience #YearInReview
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In preparation for the lecture tomorrow, I opened "The Cell in Development and Heredity" by E.B. Wilson (Columbia Univ), and realized that this 3rd edition was published in 100 years ago.
So many things happened since then, including the fact that I, a Japanese Prof in NY, own and read the book.
A great curiosity-driven research!
The peer-reviewed VOR for the MagIC-cryo-EM paper by @yarimura.bsky.social and @1001hak.bsky.social is finally published!
Congrats Yasu!
Excited to share our structural insights into how microtubules differentially guide phosphorylation of kinetochore-microtubule regulators, Ndc80 and MCAK, for chromosome segregation. Heroic efforts by Yiming Niu with a fun collaboration with Jennifer DeLuca lab!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Even "useless" objects can be appreciated - arts are indispensable for human society.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperar...
Biologists know that redundant or non-essential parts often play important roles.
Still, human society must decide on priorities, and this requires justifications.
Please check out my essay on the amazing life of Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa and her retrospective exhibition at MOMA, released at RockEDU Science Outreach blog site.
rockedu.rockefeller.edu/blog/how-i-d...
"The centennial of E.B. Wilson's The Cell in Development and Heredity" by Maienschein, Chalfie, and Pederson, including reflections by J. R. McIntosh, Matthew Messelson, et al.
www.molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/...
elifesciences.org/articles/103...
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by Hironori Funabiki, Professor at the Rockefeller University “I’m not so interested in the expression of something. I’m more interested in what the material can do. So that’s why I keep exploring.” —...
We review and salute the third edition of E.B. Wilson's “The Cell in Development and Heredity” published a century ago, noting its unique features and placing them in context. Brief commentaries from ...
A technique that enables single-particle cryo-EM analysis of targets on a magnetic bead and a particle curation method that helps structural classification of small particles has been developed.
Researchers in the #FunabikiLab have devised a way to visualize molecules that are very rare, very small, or hard to produce naturally—including some viruses.
@elife.bsky.social #RockefellerScience
I am happy to share a preprint on the marine plankton project I started one year ago (thanks to Julius and Drahomira's help)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Microtubules have been viewed as passive structural supports, but a study from @hirofunabiki.bsky.social in @science.org Advances redefines microtubules as active regulators, helping to prevent abnormalities in the number of chromosomes, a hallmark of cancer.
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Researchers have devised a way to visualize molecules that are very rare, very small, or hard to produce naturally, including viruses.
I may not be the first or last person to tell you about Chesterton's Fence, but I have a feeling you're already thinking about it under some other name
The Rockefeller University
Diplonemids are highly diverse and abundant marine plankton with significant ecological importance. However, little is known about their biology, even in the model diplonemid Paradiplonema papillatum ...
So I started working on a marine plankton called Diplonema papillatum, a non-traditional model of diplonemids (which turned out to be very abundant and diverse in the ocean). Everything is difficult! But it is so much fun to try to explore unknown unknowns
