Issue 08

A series of quantitative metaphors on the sizes and shapes of biomolecules and organisms.

How aquaporin and potassium channels filter hundreds of millions of water molecules or ions each second, by positioning the correct amino acid in the perfect place.

Biotechnology needs more and better transducers.

In a little over a century, the electron microscope evolved from a tool barely capable of resolving virus particles into one able to capture atomic detail.