Medicine
Membranes and Molecules
Methods to our Madness
Microscopes and Magnets
Mothers and Fathers
100

This technique is a medical application of NMR used to image tissues in the body.

MRI

100

This GPCR found in the retina is light-sensitive and enables vision.

Rhodopsin

100

This computer simulation method studies the evolution of physical movement of interacting species in a system over time.

Molecular Dynamics

100

This dye is used in gram staining to identify Gram-positive bacteria.

Crystal violet

100

This scientist is commonly associated with fermentation and microbes, but also discovered molecular asymmetry.

Louis Pasteur

200

This field looks at structural changes in histones over multiple generations to track non-genetic, heritable characteristics in disease.

Epigenetics

200

These membrane proteins are not permanently attached, but are temporarily attached to the membrane and can dissociate.

Peripheral membrane proteins

200

This microscopy method uses the displacement of a beam to determine chemical or mechanical properties of a sample.

Atomic Force Microscopy

200

This mathematical tool can decompose a function into a sum of sinusoidal base functions, and is often used in structural biology when solving 3D structures.

Fourier transform

200

This scientist coined the term “fluorescence” and is credited with discovering UV-induced fluorescence.

George G. Stokes

300

Cell-cell adhesion of neoplastic cells has been shown to have a strong impact in the progression of this class of human disease.

Cancer

300

This redox-active group of organic compounds are present in the electron transport chain, can carry two electrons, and have intrinsic fluorescence.

Flavins

300

This method uses the laws of mass and gravitation to gain thermodynamic and physical parameters about molecules in solution.

Analytical Ultracentrifugation

300

This technique improves contrast of images by collecting only light scattered by the sample, sacrificing overall intensity.

Dark Field

300

This scientist invented mobile x-ray vehicles to aid the wounded during World War I.

Marie Curie

400

A single amino acid substitution in this protein causes a conformational change that leads to sickle cell anemia.

Hemoglobin

400

This ATP-gated chloride channel leads to cystic fibrosis if mutated.

CFTR

400

This technique compares the temperature of a reference and sample cell to determine binding affinities, enthalpy changes, and stoichiometry of molecules in solution.  

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry

400

The full name of this technique: TEM

Transmission Electron Microscopy

400

This scientist discovered the enzyme telomerase and answered fundamental questions about chromosomes.

Elizabeth Blackburn

500

This technique based on interferometry uses low-coherence light to gain 2D and 3D images of tissue, at submicrometer resolution.

Optical coherence tomography

500

This model describes the lipid membrane as a thin layer of viscous fluid surrounded by a less viscous bulk liquid.

Saffman–Delbrück

500

This analyzer is used in mass spectrometry to accelerate ions through an electric field and determines how long they take to reach the detector.

Time-of-flight

500

DING DING DING THIS IS THE IMAGE QUESTION

Kidney
500

This scientist developed NMR techniques for determining the 3D structure of biological macromolecules.

Kurt Wüthrich