Category Archives: Biophysical Journal

Roadblock Molecules on the BiophysJ Cover

The cover image for the 104th volume of Biophysical Journal aims to illustrate the complexity of proteins approaching and associating with DNA as they execute their regulatory genomic tasks. The question of how molecules that bind the DNA and block … Continue reading

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Enzymes Sliding on the New BiophysJ Cover

Alfonso De Simone, an author on the latest paper to be featured on the Biophysical Journal cover, describes the background of the image below. The paper, “Substrate Dynamics in Enzyme Action: Rotations of Monosaccharide Subunits in the Binding Groove are … Continue reading

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Ross Lab Makes Microtubule Pasta on Latest BiophysJ Cover

Jennifer Ross, an author on the latest paper to be featured on the Biophysical Journal cover, describes the background of the image below. After a split lab vote, Ross submitted two very different versions of the cover, and the Journal … Continue reading

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New Perspective on Gene Regulation Highlighted on BiophysJ Cover

Author Sahand Hormoz describes the work represented on the latest cover of the Biophysical Journal, based on her recent paper, “Cross-talk and interference enhance information capacity of a signaling pathway.” This image is a visual representation of a new perspective … Continue reading

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BiophysJ Cover Communicates Link Between Raw Data and What it Represents

Read on to learn more about the image featured on the latest issue of the Biophysical Journal! Author Arthur J. Michaelk describes the experiment and findings, as well as the illustrative composition of this issues cover art. The image is … Continue reading

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Alzheimer’s Biomarker FDDNP Depicted on the BiophysJ Cover

The latest BiophysJ cover image is based on the article “Molecular Interactions of Alzheimer’s Biomarker FDDNP with Aβ Peptide,” written by Christopher Lockhart and Dmitri K. Klimov. Klimov explains the scientific purpose of the image, as well as the work … Continue reading

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BiophysJ Cover Visually Answers Scientific Questions

Betty Gaffney describes the latest Biophysical Journal cover, based on the paper “Locating a Lipid at the Portal to the Lipoxygenase Active Site,” by Betty Gaffney, Miles D. Bradshaw, Stephen D. Frausto, Fayi Wu, Jack H. Freed, and Peter Borbat. … Continue reading

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Collaborative Approach to BiophysJ Cover

Image author Thierry Savin describes the latest Biophysical Journal cover, which depicts the slow transformation of the “bead-spring” model introduced in the paper the image is based on, Fibers with Integrated Mechano-Chemical Switches: Minimalistic Design Principles Derived from Fibronectin. The cover image … Continue reading

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Physicists Describe the World with Math – Latest BiophysJ Cover Art

The authors of the latest paper featured on the cover of Biophysical Journal, Characterization  of curli A production on living bacterial surfaces by scanning probe microscopy, explain the image in the post below. Thanks to authors Yoo Jin Oh, Yidan … Continue reading

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Scientific Collaboration Illustrated on Latest BiophysJ Cover

Klaus Gerwert, one of the authors of the latest paper to grace the cover of Biophysical Journal, describes the image in the post below. The image is based on the paper N-Ras forms dimers at POPC membranes, authored by Jörn … Continue reading

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