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#IAmScience Jessica Milano-Foster

#IAmScience Jessica Milano-Foster

By Becca Wolf | Bond LSC The placenta is a crucial organ that develops in a woman’s body during pregnancy that provides oxygen and nutrients to the fetus. After her experience doing research on this organ while getting her master’s degree at the University of Kansas Medical Center, current MU Ph.D. student Jessica Milano-Foster has…

Boron: Exposed

Boron: Exposed

Figure B is a colorized radiographic image that shows the path of boron in a five-day-old maize seedling. | photo contributed by Alexandra Housh, Michaela Matthes, Amber Gerheart, Stacy Wilder, Kun-Eek Kil, Michael Schueller, James Guthrie, Paula McSteen, and Richard Ferrieri. By Lauren Hines | Bond LSC The element Boron, while extremely low in levels,…

New Genome Sequencing Instrument Pays Dividends at DNA Core

New Genome Sequencing Instrument Pays Dividends at DNA Core

Nathan Bivens and Wes Warren. | Photos by Mariah Cox & Erica Overfelt, Bond LSC By Jerry Duggan | Bond LSC Behind any breakthrough in science lies a research process full of precise methods and instrumentation essential to moving from hypothesis to discovery. Some of those genetic breakthroughs just became more possible on UM System…

#IAmScience Bing Stacey

#IAmScience Bing Stacey

By Lauren Hines | Bond LSC Bing Stacey works on her soybean genetics papers in her office with the company of a plant on the windowsill and a large tropical photo of the Philippines on the second floor of Bond LSC. For the past few years, Bing Stacey has been working towards uncovering the secrets…

Dong Xu receives national honor

Dong Xu receives national honor

Dong Xu, Bond LSC principal investigator and Shumaker Endowed Professor in the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering. | photo by Roger Meissen, Bond LSC A Bond Life Sciences Center researcher has been inducted into an elite organization comprised of two percent of all medical and biological engineers. The American Institution for Medical and Biological…

Turning Winter into Summer: How Greenhouses Work in the Winter

Turning Winter into Summer: How Greenhouses Work in the Winter

The Sears Greenhouse Complex at the University of Missouri. | photo by Becca Wolf, Bond LSC By Becca Wolf | Bond LSC Picture this. It’s 25 degrees Fahrenheit outside and snow is falling in Columbia. The weathermen have projected 4 inches of snow in the next 24 hours. As wind whips the snow around, students…

#IAmScience Hsin-Yeh Hsieh

#IAmScience Hsin-Yeh Hsieh

By Becca Wolf | Bond LSC  Some scientists go into research for basic science, such as finding an enzyme and figuring out its functions and properties. Others like Hsin-Yeh Hsieh, gravitate toward applied sciences where they use what they know to develop technology.  “Because I can use everything I learned in science as building blocks…

Movement is the Key

Movement is the Key

                                                  Anand Chandrasekhar It’s an asset to be able to visualize and think about the nervous system from the perspective of an electrical engineer.  Cell biologist Anand Chandrasekhar — whose work…

A NEET Connection

A NEET Connection

Arabidopsis growing in Ron Mittler’s lab. | photo by Becca Wolf, Bond LSC Protein important in balancing iron and reactive oxygen in plant and cancer cells  By Becca Wolf | Bond LSC  You might tend to think durability is more of an issue in building a car or engineering a building, but environmental stress makes…

#IAmScience: Kamlendra Singh

#IAmScience: Kamlendra Singh

By Jerry Duggan|Bond LSC Kamal Singh was in the town of Allahabad in his native India, preparing for competitive exams to become a government official. As he craned his head to the left, he saw a highly respected official getting berated by an arrogant and disrespectful political leader. While Singh always knew that, in these…