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2/17/2023

ON THE END OF A LEASH

Did humans invent plugs? Nope. Filamentous fungus did long before us, to obstruct holes that let cytosol move from one cellular compartment to another. Known as Woronin bodies, these biological plugs are tethered to the side of cells, just like the plugs in our old bathtubs.

printed by Imprimerie Pichot, 1883

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1/27/2023

ON A TIGHTROPE

Our body needs iron for DNA synthesis or DNA repair for instance, yet too much of it becomes harmful to cells that will start to commit suicide (ferroptosis). To stabilize things and keep cells alive, an enzyme known as ferroptosis suppressor protein will do all it can to prevent cells from dying.

print by Helen Phillips

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12/29/2022

A HEATED LEGACY

Thanks to a couple of proteins, some plants seem to be able to transmit their response to heat stress down the generations: a phenomenon known as thermomemory.

painting by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
German botanist and explorer (1794-1868)

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12/23/2022

DIMENSIONS
EPFL, numéro 7

avec le dessinateur aloys lolo, nous découvrons le laboratoire de traitement des signaux LTS2 dirigé par l'acousticien Hervé Lissek

dessin: aloys lolo

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12/17/2022

ANOTHER KIND OF HARMONY

How Nature usually prefers asymmetry to symmetry, and which protein - it is believed - may well be involved in creating it.

This is the last comic strip of the series. In Autumn 2023, éditions Antipodes (Lausanne, Switzerland) will be publishing an album!

drawing: aloys lolo

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