Thorns are plant defensive structures that arise from axillary shoot apical meristems that proliferate for a time and then terminally differentiate into a sharp hard tip. Like other meristems, thorn meristems contain stem cells but, in the case of thorns, these stem cells undergo a programmed cessation of proliferative activity. ...
Fluid Machinery: The Nucleolus, Ribosomes, and AgingResearch combining insights from materials physics and cell biology has ushered in a new paradigm for understanding how the chaotic intracellular environment is brought to order, through the collective condensation of biomolecules into droplets of living information. In this talk, I will present an overview of these principles and ongoing ...
A few years ago Gil Durán launched his blog titled The Nerd Reich and now he has a popular book of the same title. He was once press spokesperson for Kamala Harris and other California politicians before he returned to his journalistic roots and became the scourge of the local ...
