📺 Lunch Break: Anita Waltho – ​“Trash” Talk and Creativity

Aggressive tumors often contain large amounts of exchromosomal DNA. Removing this DNA from the nuclei of cancer cells could improve patient outcomes, an international team led by Anton Henssen of the Experimental and Clinical Research Center reports in ​“Nature Genetics.” 

The Oliver Daumke lab and researchers at Freie Universität Berlin have revealed how a protein complex guards the entrance to channels in mitochondrial membranes called cristae. The work, published in ​“Nature Communications,” provides a blueprint for modeling human proteins in action. 

Using cryo-electron microscopy, the Kudryashev lab has revealed how muscle cell calcium channels open synchronously. The findings, published in ​“Nature Communications,” may explain a mechanism behind serious muscle diseases. 

Klaus Rajewsky is among this year’s winners of Emory University’s Max Cooper Prize in Immunology, which recognizes scientists for their ​“transformative and revolutionary achievements.” The three winners will be formally honored on Sept. 29, 2026, with a $100,000 prize to be shared equally.