Molecular biology meets microelectronics

EMBO Molecular Medicine—Where molecular biology meets clinical research

In 1964, when the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) was founded, molecular biology was a small, emerging field within the biological sciences. The founders of EMBO, among them name just a few, belonged to the avant-garde of molecular biology. They came from different backgrounds—physics, chemistry, medicine and biology, but they shared interest in two basic questions: (i) What are ...

Systems biology meets platelet biology.

tion was associated with an observable survival benefit and delay in progression to AIDS among HIV-1–infected IDUs. 3 While HTLV-I has been definitively proven to cause adult T-cell leukemia/lym-phoma and a progressive neurodegenerative illness known as tropical spastic parapare-sis/HTLV-I–associated myelopathy (TSP/ HAM), a causal role for HTLV-II with either leukemia or TSP/HAM is much less w...

Editorial: Molecular Organization of Membranes: Where Biology Meets Biophysics

Back to the future: molecular biology meets metabolism.

As biological scientists we aspire to understand how organisms, organs and cells work. Whenever it is possible to hone things down in a reductionist manner to a single metabolite, protein, RNA, or gene, the chances for simplicity and clarity are enhanced. This “reductionist” approach has been wildly successful over the past halfcentury, and there is no reason to cast doubt on its future utility...

Synthetic meets cell biology

Following a successful panel discussion at last years' American Society for Cell Biology Annual Meeting, the first minisymposium in Synthetic Cell Biology was held at this years' annual meeting in Denver. This is an exciting first for the society, and the attendance clearly supported the interest of cell biologists in applying the concepts of synthetic biology to the understanding and engineeri...