Dynamics of the Bacterial Chromosome
Most bacterial cells have their genes arranged in a single circle of DNA. The circle of DNA plus some attached proteins...
Apotosis Lecture

Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that plays important roles during animal development, immune response, elimination of damaged cells,...
How a Flu Virus Invades our Body.

When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's...
Monoclonal Antibodies against Flu Virus

This animation illustrates how directing monoclonal antibodies to the influenza virus prevents a conformational change in the protein that is necessary...
Principles of Cellular Organization

In the third part, I discuss how the complex shapes of cells are created by the cytoskeleton, and I compare and...
Force Generation by Actin Assembly

The second part is devoted to understanding how the polymerization of actin can produce force, which is a current area of...
Cell Motility lecture

This lecture covers the biochemical basis of actin-based motility (focusing on the pathogen Listeria as a model system for this process),...
NanoMRI Microscope

IBM Research scientists, in collaboration with the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford University, have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
Personalized Medicine and Nanobiotech Lecture
From nano-scale diagnostic and therapeutic tools to medication designed and developed specifically for you, new research directions at Cornell are breaking...
Pediatric Obesity

Pediatric obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States with 20-25% of children considered obese. That number has doubled in...
Balloon Angioplasty Animation

Angioplasty is a technique used to dilate an area of arterial blockage with the help of a catheter that has an...