But some cell biologists may need more convincing.
For cell biologists it should be an exciting contest.
In collaboration with musicians and other plant cell biologists I am producing science music videos featuring cartoon organelles.
In the light of new knowledge, some stem cell biologists are making more guarded predictions about the imminence of stem cell therapy.
Caris Diagnostics of Phoenix, which is also a client of Act 1, is a molecular testing company that employs cell biologists and skilled lab technicians.
But, whereas astronomers readily grasped that the mechanics of the universe proceed in three dimensions, cell biologists often still seem stuck in a two dimensions.
Born in China, Dr. Sun said she was now renewing efforts to collaborate with well-financed stem cell biologists there.
It was not even on the agenda of the research planning meeting held last October by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which was dominated by stem cell biologists.
An interdisciplinary army of geneticists, bioengineers, chemical engineers, physicists, materials scientists, physicians and molecular and cell biologists are, right now, growing tissue from progenitor cells derived from animal embryos or from blood or bone marrow.
Plant cell biologists at the University of Oxford have discovered a gene that can be harnessed to give plants in a laboratory setting more resilience, making them thrive instead of whither when unfavourable conditions strike.
I would therefore recommend to my fellow cell biologists and newly minted Nobel Laureate, Dr Schekman – for whom I have the greatest respect – that we first focus energies on securing sufficient funding to keep basic biomedical science afloat.
