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Creativity, passion, inclusion and a targeted way to study circular RNAs.

A soccer striker and his ion channel rescue tools.

Neurochemistry sensors for brain research and life with a collaborative frame of mind.

Frugally built technology to study the ocean’s microbes, and engineering for societal good.

“I have no idea what’s awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.” ―Albert Camus, The Plague

A new way to see actin in action, hearing as others don’t, and saved by the guitar.

A platform for exploring GPCR secrets, powered by community, music and sports.

A yellow fluorescent sensor to study the brain, and the joy and pain of climbing.

Realistic models of epidemics account for latency, loss of immunity, births and deaths.

A better base editor with fewer off-target changes, from a die-hard Manchester United fan.

Identifying things small and large in one mass spec experiment, and why persistence matters.

“Every day sadder and sadder news of its increase. In the City died this week 7496; and of them, 6102 of the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead this week is near 10,000 ....” —Samuel Pepys, 1665

Analyzing cleared tissue with a deep-learning pipeline, and why dreaming is good for science.

How joy and wide-ranging curiosity leads to neurobiology tools for new types of questions.

“With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.” —Amedeo Modigliani

A love of math and biology comes together with a SPARK.