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A new study provides a framework to boost crop growth by incorporating a strategy adopted from a fast-growing species of green algae. The algae, known as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, contain an organelle called the pyrenoid that speeds up the conversion of carbon, which the algae absorb from the air, into a form that the organisms can use for growth.

The Princeton microbiologist has also created a non-infectious version of the COVID-19 virus that researchers can study safely.

A new view of biology January 26, 2021Princeton Cliff Brangwynne was seeing cells in the sidewalk again. It was another long day in the lab at Harvard Medical School, where Brangwynne would often work late nights, staring at cells. Sometimes he spent so much time staring at cells through the microscope that the cells would follow him home, their shapes imprinted on his vision. Walking late at night, he’d see them dancing over the buildings and the empty streets and sidewalks. Though Brangw...

Cliff Brangwynne upends tradition to establish a new view of biology Jerimiah Oetting, for the Office of the Dean for Research Jan. 25, 2021 9 a.m. Clifford Brangwynne, the June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and inaugural director of the Princeton Bioengineering Initiative, sees similarities between living cells and salad dressing, in which oil and vinegar separate according to the laws of physics. The idea has caught on, and now many scientists are...