This Month

A machine-learning competition in microscopy and the fun of gazing into the night sky.

Growing up curious in the countryside leads to tools for manipulating endogenous proteins.

Building nice, shiny instruments to solve unsolved problems, and the physics of sailing.

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see” — Rene Magritte

Staying mobile and building a Toy-Story-related way to stitch terabyte-sized images in microscopy.

You can look back there to explain things, but the explanation disappears. You’ll never find it there. Things are not explained by the past. They’re explained by what happens now. –Alan Watts

Analyzing super-res microscopy images ASAP, strengthened by Ultimate Frisbee.

Quantile regression robustly estimates the typical and extreme values of a response.

Bioluminescence lights her way to measure glucose uptake in vivo, and why a chemist travels outside her comfort zone.

His enhancer-discovery tool cisTopic is both wet-lab and dry-lab. John Coltrane matters, too.

Robust regression generates more reliable estimates by detecting and downweighting outliers.

A spin-jock’s path to biomolecular dynamics with NMR, and why solitude matters.

Simultaneous examination of multiple factors at two levels can reveal which have an effect.

RNA-editing tools from a cricket-playing electrical engineer turned bioengineer.

How AI can help track animals and why breakfast powers collaboration.

A probe for a journey into bubbles and why it’s good to be both inventor and discoverer.

YETI emerges from a dance between genomics and computation.

An optogenetic tool for inhibiting neurons and how to sail across the Tree of Life.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. –J.D. Brandeis.

Speeding up spot-to-plunge in cryo-EM and how to keep a lab talking.