Testing the Footing

by | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights

Bridges Helps Univ. of Chicago Team Simulate Cell Movement, Upending Scientific Expectations The movement of white blood cells to fight infections and the spread of cancer cells both rely on the same natural process. The cell reaches out to a new surface with a...

Function Follows Form

by | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights

Bridges Simulations plus Lab Work on Frog Neuromuscular Junction Sheds Light on Human Diseases When a nerve cell passes a message to its neighbors, it must do so via chemicals sent across the synapse—a small space between the cells. Early researchers studied a synapse...

Putting Neutrinos on Ice

by | Sep 28, 2018 | Science Highlights

Identification of Cosmic-Ray Source by IceCube Neutrino Observatory Depended on Global Collaboration, PSC’s Bridges Four billion years ago—before the first life had developed on Earth—a massive black hole shot a proton out at nearly the speed of light. A result of...

Loose Ends

by | Sep 27, 2018 | Science Highlights

“Sticky and Loose Ends” Shed Light on Heart Health Anton 2 Shows how APOA1 Protein Ends Link to Hold Together “the Good Cholesterol” Until recently, scientists couldn’t agree how the protein APOA1 holds together the “good cholesterol” that protects us from heart...