In a new paper out this month in the journal Nature, Dr. Ruben Gonzalez and Biological Sciences PhD students Riley Gentry and Nicholas Ide describe a major new finding that could affect drug treatments for diseases like cancer.
The Gonzalez lab uses single-molecule fluorescence microscopy to study the structural dynamics of biomolecules, creating movies of individual molecules performing actions essential to our bodies. The team’s new finding concerns how the eIF4F protein interacts with messenger RNAs.
Gonzalez, a professor of biophysical chemistry, was interviewed by Columbia News about the study and its potentially wide-ranging implications. You can read the full interview here.
