Water is the 2024 molecule of the year
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Water, you say?
In our first Molecule of the Year essay, Sephra Rampersad recalls a great scientist asking, what is the one critical component that could make or break your experiment in any lab?
Water takes center stage
Danielle Guarracino remembers the role water played at two moments in her life, one doing scary experiments and one facing a health scare.
What I鈥檝e learned about water, aging and protein quality control
Alice Liu thought an increase in heat shock protein chaperones would prevent misfolding in Huntington鈥檚 disease proteins. The results surprised her, and water was the key.
The subtle strength of hydrogen bonds
Indu Sridharan remembers how water complicated her atomic force microscopy imaging studies of collagen.
The teaching power of water
鈥淚 questioned whether children would be very interested in this exercise; there wasn鈥檛 much to it.鈥� At an outreach event aimed at children, Jessica Desamero learns that three cups of water can...
Water rescues the enzyme
鈥淪ometimes you must bend the rules to get what you want.鈥� In the case of using water in the purification of calpain-2, it was worth the risk.
There are worse things in the water than E. coli
E. coli levels determined whether Olympic swimmers could dive into the Seine this past summer. But are these bacteria the best proxy for water contamination?
麻豆传媒色情片 impressions of water as cuneiform cascade*
Inspired by "the most elegant depiction of H2O鈥檚 colligative features," Thomas Gorrell created a seven-tiered visual cascade of Sumerian characters beginning with the ancient sign for water.