Janet Iwasa Storyborad (1/18/2022)
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- Scientists such as Janet use sereies of experiments and microscopes to make visuals of these molecular makeups.
- In the cytoskeleton actin filaments are alwys being created and destroyed. The actin in the cytoskeleton helps the cell in changing shape, moving around and sticking to surfaces. It also helps them in getting rid of harmful bacteria.
- Janet Iwasa is a biologist that lives in Utah. She isn't just facinated with the beauty of the state, but the molecular makeups if you were to look a little closer.
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- Where is protein found in the cell?
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- Scientists will spend there whole life going through countless tests and experiments to understand just one molecular process. It is very challenging and time consuming to study and closely examine the molecular structure in the environment.
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- Protein Shape:
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- Janet Iwasa takes molecular ideas or models and turns them into animations. These animations help scientists communicate ideas from their work in molecular biology.
- The movement is caused by a protein called actin. This is part of the cytoskeleton. This is an imune cell, they live in our bodies and protect us from invading bacteria.
- Our muscle cells have actin structures that give shape to these filaments. Muscles contract and filaments pull together. Another part of the cytoskeleton are microtubules which are responsible for long range transportation in the cell.
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- Interesting!
- THE NUCLEUS
- Chromatin remodelers move the DNA around the histones and allow for new DNA to get exposed
- DNA is maintained and looked after in the nucleus. DNA is wrapped around certain types of proteins that scientists call histones. This allows cells to fit as much DNA inside of the nucleus as possible.
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- Janet Iwasa says that "one of my biggest challenges is visualizing uncertainty." This means that she has to animate ideas, not reality. This makes it difficult to make representations of the models. They are important for us to visualize the concepts that biologist are creating.
- Scientist now can use protein machines to edit genomes. CRISPR is an organization that takes advantage of proteins called Cas9 to cut off messed up parts of the DNA, and reattach it in the correct place.
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