Richard Cheney: Life on the move
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JCB • VOLUME 214 • NUMBER 5 • 2016 492 Richard Cheney grew up in a small town in the Cascade Mountains, spending many summers exploring the local creeks and forests. His parents encouraged his early interest in science, taking him to aquariums, letting him set up a chemistry lab in the bathroom, and even allowing some unwise experiments, like making rocket fuel on the stove. When his parents bought him a small microscope, Cheney was utterly fascinated by the beautiful spirogyra, diatoms, and copepods from the pond behind the house. Today, Cheney studies the movements of microscopic life in his lab at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. His work is centered on understanding the molecular players that mediate various forms of cellular movement. We contacted him to learn more.
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