Tag: Biologists

20 OCT

50-year-old research issue still biting biologists

Enlarge / HeLa cells, long after it was apparent they were trying to take over the world. (credit: Tom Deerinck/NIH) Normally, news involves something that is, as the name implies, new. But this week, attention was given to a problem in biology that is anything but new. There have been decades of warnings that researchers sometimes […]

10 SEP

The dye whisperer: Meet the chemist giving biologists worldwide new colors

Enlarge / Cells in metaphase, dyed by rhodamines (credit: Luke Lavis) You can never have enough photons. Biologists, they always want more, says Luke Lavis, a dye chemist with Howard Hughes Medical Institute. And, he lets slip under a smile, they’re “super picky.” Still, biologists appreciate his work. While Lavis’ fellow chemists might be inclined […]