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2/17/2023

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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

 
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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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11/30/2022

 
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​DELAYED

How an enzyme delays a cell's suicide so that the cell can arrange a few affairs before its passing. 

drawing by Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943) 

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10/25/2022

 
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THE MANY LIVES OF COLOUR

Fungi were among the very first organisms to colonise the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, and it is a pigment, similar to melanin, that has helped them to do so.  

painting by Paul Klee, "Kristall-Stufung"

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10/19/2022

 
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DIMENSIONS
EPFL, numéro 6

avec l'artiste Charlotte de Perrot, nous découvrons le laboratoire LFIM dirigé par la chimiste et spécialiste des matériaux Wendy Lee Queen.
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​dessin: Charlotte de Perrot

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9/17/2022

 
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BENEATH US 

L'histoire d'un champignon et d'une protéine impliquée dans la synthèse de produits antimicrobiens afin  de préserver les racines poussant dans le sol.  
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dessin par aloys lolo

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8/31/2022

 
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THE COLOUR RED

The blue Mauritian bellflower is one of the very few flowering plants worldwide, which has a bright-coloured nectar - produced by three enzymes that work very closely together. 

photo by Heather Angel, used with permission 
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