{"id":181287,"date":"2024-01-24T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/to-make-science-more-approachable-curiosity-series-takes-viewers-behind-the-scenes-of-scientists-lives"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:27:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:27:53","slug":"to-make-science-more-approachable-curiosity-series-takes-viewers-behind-the-scenes-of-scientists-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/to-make-science-more-approachable-curiosity-series-takes-viewers-behind-the-scenes-of-scientists-lives","title":{"rendered":"To make science more approachable, \u2018Curiosity\u2019 series takes viewers behind the scenes of scientists\u2019 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/to-make-science-more-approachable-curiosity-series-takes-viewers-behind-the-scenes-of-scientists-lives2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stepping inside Erin Adams\u2019 lab at the University of Chicago is a bit overstimulating.<\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019 work centers on molecular immunology. As the Joseph Regenstein Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and vice provost for research, she researches the molecular signals that the immune system uses to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy tissue.<\/p>\n<p>And her lab is expansive. It includes a tissue culture lab space\u2014where she and her team of postdoctoral fellows work with cells to try to recapitulate things. Then there\u2019s the crystal room where one can find hundreds of labeled wells filled with proteins that are being watched to see if three-dimensional crystals materialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepping inside Erin Adams\u2019 lab at the University of Chicago is a bit overstimulating. Adams\u2019 work centers on molecular immunology. As the Joseph Regenstein Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and vice provost for research, she researches the molecular signals that the immune system uses to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy tissue. And her lab [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}