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Division of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institiute of Technology

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Joined August 2024
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Jellyfish Enable Surprising New Findings about Cancer - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/jellyfi…

Jellyfish Enable Surprising New Findings about Cancer

Jellyfish experiments and a new mathematical model suggest that cellular proliferation may be protective against cancers

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Novel Molecular Shuttle Could Deliver Targeted, Diverse Therapies to the Brain - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/novel-m…

Novel Molecular Shuttle Could Deliver Targeted, Diverse Therapies to the Brain

A new technique developed at Caltech called BrainCAB (Brain access through Carbonic Anhydrase-binder Bioconjugation) offers a more effective way to transport a broad range of medicines across the...

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First Findings of Mirror-like Activity in Individual Human Neurons - Biology and Biological Engineering bbe.caltech.edu/news/first-f…

First Findings of Mirror-like Activity in Individual Human Neurons

High-level brain regions that govern planning and intent demonstrate mirror-like activity when humans observe the actions of others, but only when the observation is relevant to a subject's intentions

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BBE Newsletter - August 2026 mailchi.mp/caltech/bbe-newsl…
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Gold Records and 3D Molecular Models: Step Into the Office of Bil Clemons — Caltech Magazine

Music and mentorship can be found in the office of this biochemist. By Omar Shamout If you were to walk into Bil Clemons’s office in Braun Laboratories, it is likely that his 6-year-old Aussie...

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Chan and Elowitz Named to Great Britain's Royal Society

The theoretical chemist and bioengineer join the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence

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Single Tissue Snapshot Reveals Biological Processes Unfolding Over Time

Long Cai and collaborators showed that a single tissue image can reveal how cells coordinate over weeks of development, uncovering an intrinsic clock in the support cells that help organize this...

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Scanning the Body with Sound

Caltech researchers have developed a system that can perform deep ultrasound imaging on whole cross-sections of the human body.

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Simple New System Keeps Microscopes in Focus Automatically

The new autofocus technique could eliminate much of the labor involved in high-throughput microscopy

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How Melatonin Promotes Sleep

New research in zebrafish suggests that melatonin links circadian rhythms to sleep by suppressing the brain's responses to visual stimuli.

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AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs

From identifying cancer cells to tracking the behavior of bacteria, a new algorithm helps make sense of volumes of biological imaging data

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Imagine That: Brain Uses Neurons from Vision System When Forming Mental Imagery

Researchers have found that when you recall and visualize something you have seen before—a key component of long-term memory—neurons in your visual system reactivate in a manner consistent with...

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