Tashia Morgridge, co-founder of the Morgridge Institute for Research and philanthropist devoted to education and public engagement across Wisconsin, passed away last week at age 93.
Author: Morgridge Institute for Research
Discuss: What is scientific knowledge, anyway?
Morgridge’s latest Fearless Science Forum, held on Oct. 13, asked four scientific leaders how scientists know what they know.
Rising Sparks: Christian Tentellino, biomedical imaging
Morgridge Postdoctoral Fellow Christian Tentellino’s academic journey brought him to Madison, Wis. to develop imaging tools aimed at revealing why solid tumors stymy immune cell treatments: “The hope of doing something relevant in the clinical field in the future is what moves me daily.”
Proteomics Maps Eye-Infecting Acanthamoeba Mitochondria Across Oxygen Levels
Acanthamoeba can survive without oxygen, which is part of what makes infections from the amoeba dangerous. By mapping the organism’s mitochondrial proteins, researchers are now probing the machinery behind its survival and searching for more selective therapeutic targets.
Esta ameba puede quedarse a vivir en tus ojos. Y los fármacos no la detienen
Dos estudios publicados en Cell y liderados por Jonathan Stefely, dan un paso previo pero fundamental: descifrar con mucha mayor precisión qué hace funcionar Acanthamoeba castellanii y, sobre todo, qué partes de su maquinaria son diferentes de las nuestras.