Rejecting transplant rejections: How to get graft recipients to keep their new organs
“Scalpel, please,” the microsurgeon says as she prepares to make an abdominal incision to extract the heart from the donor mouse. She has no more than four minutes to excise the still-beating heart for transplant into the recipient. Once the successful transplantation...
From simple interactions to complex computations: UChicago scientist seeks a unifying theory of the brain
How fish in dark water form sensory representations of what’s around them and how mammals learn to recognize shapes on a flashcard may seem like different research questions, but for Brent Doiron, professor of neurobiology and statistics at the University of Chicago,...
A songbird’s “whistle” calls UChicago researchers to the desert
When researchers Emma Greig, Max Witynski and collaborators set up camp in the Sonoran Desert, they were interested in one animal in particular—a bird, called a verdin.
It’s Getting Hot in Here!
From flying a drone on mars to developing mRNA vaccines, scientific understanding and modern medicine have made incredible progress. However, when it comes to biology, some of the most basic questions remain hotly debated. For example, how do cells sense temperature?
For the first time, researchers visualize metabolic process at the single-cell level
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) and Biological Sciences Division have developed a combined imaging and machine learning technique that can, for the first time, measure a metabolic process at both the cellular and sub-cellular levels.