The BioBus Daily News

A new article published today in PLOS One from Columbia University and Cell Motion Labs (the non-profit that runs the BioBus) gives new insights into how cells move. And, even if you’re not into the gory details of what a cell is doing when it spreads out like a pancake on the microscope, you might still be interested in just playing through the movies, like this one:

All PLOS journals are free, and you can even comment on and rate articles! So please support this work and open-science by going to the article, browsing around, and giving your two-cents.

Gaylen has done a bang-up job on the wheel well cover. Instead of making two steps as in Ray’s original design, we made just one on the bottom and left the curve of the wheel-well alone, which I think looks really nice and is perfectly functional. The wood was all reused – it came partly from the organ in grace church and partly from Gary’s original wheel well cover that I still had in storage. The structure holds an uncanny resemblance to a gigantic plant cell, and it would  be fun to paint it like that! Next project up: better cabinets for the wet-lab.