Editorial
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A Halloween Interview with Jacques Monod
Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Charles Sanders’ yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring Jacques Monod, co-creator of the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model for protein allostery and co-recipient of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Read MoreOctober 22, 2026
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Three fainting goats and a magic cow: A Thanksgiving conversation
Long-time collaborators and friends Chuck Sanders and Dr. Al George sat down for a Thanksgiving conversation focused on fainting goats, sacred cows, and disordered muscles in humans. Read MoreNovember 19, 2025
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A Halloween interview with Maud Menten
Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders' yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring Maud Menten, co-creator of the Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics equation. Read MoreOctober 20, 2025
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Gravity is not our friend: A summer postcard
Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders reflects on a summertime backpacking trip in the Wind River Range of Western Wyoming. Read MoreAugust 21, 2025
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A Halloween Interview with Charles Darwin
Tune in to Professor of Biochemistry Chuck Sanders' yearly Halloween interview, this year featuring the one and only Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species and the mind behind the theory of evolution. Read MoreOctober 16, 2024
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Critical Points and The Unsinkable Lipid Raft Hypothesis
By Chuck Sanders When I was 13, my brother Scott (12) and I joined our neighbors Matha (12) and Jay (10) on a trip to their family cottage on the bank of the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania. I had fantasized about this trip for months; I… Read MoreSeptember 17, 2024
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The Triumph of Common Decency
By Chuck Sanders, vice dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences and professor of biochemistry Joseph Lee Heywood was acquainted with suffering. Having grown up on the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border, as a young man he made his way west to Iowa in search of opportunity. However, before things could… Read MoreMay 20, 2024
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Interview with a Vampire: Sesame Street’s Count von Count
Vice Dean Chuck Sanders conducted his annual Halloween interview, this time with Sesame Street’s Count von Count, a much loved and highly respected expert on teaching numerical skills to children. Here is a transcript of their conversation. CS: Mr. von Count, let me say what an incredible honor it… Read MoreOctober 1, 2023