Small things with big impact in urban infrastructure design

Big on Small Things

Big things come in small packages

#Microposts2015, the 5th workshop on Making Sense of Microposts, is summarised by the sub-theme: big things come in small packages. The workshop was borne out of research we were each carrying out as microblogging platforms became increasingly popular, and their value as a publishing platform and the data generated as a result began to be recognised. This phenomenon continues to grow, as microb...

Ulrike Eggert: Big things from small molecules

JCB • VOLUME 194 • NUMBER 3 • 2011 352 Y ou can learn a lot if you have the right tool to help your investigations along. But where those tools don’t exist, you may have to work on a different question. Ulrike Eggert isn’t about to let a little thing like the lack of a tool get in her way—she’ll just make her own. Since her postdoc in Tim Mitchison’s lab at Harvard (1), Eggert has used a combin...

Small Pores with a Big Impact.

The guard cells surrounding stomatal pores of leaves are, at once, the best characterized and some of the most intriguing of cells in the plant kingdom. There are, of course, some very basic reasons for our interest in stomatal guard cells. The stomatal pore connects the inner air space of the leaf with the atmosphere, providing a route for gaseous exchange that bypasses the otherwise impermeab...

Germline Specification: Small Things Have a Big Role

Germline cell fate is specified by localized OSK, VAS and other components in the pole plasm of the Drosophila embryo. New work shows that a PIWI-mediated miRNA pathway contributes to this process by regulating OSK and VAS localization.