Julia R Migliore
Fluorescence is a phenomenon in which a molecule emits light of a specific wavelength when it is activated by light of another specific wavelength. We call these the emission and excitation wavelengths, respectively. For example, GFP (which you can read about here) emits green light when it is activated by blue or UV light. Sometimes …
I spent three years of my life starting every research presentation with this fact: science has limits. More specifically, what we can see under a microscope has limits. Magnification might overcome the limits of our bare eyes, but even with the best microscope that could ever be conceived, we will hit a limit to what …
It is currently mid-February and while many have been making plans for Valentine's day, I've been making plans for the Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. It might be called a "meeting," but this is not a dozen colleagues around a table or on a Zoom call. This meeting has thousands of attendees from all over the …
Science Magnifies 