How Arjun Raj Reveals The Inner Workings Of Cells
Arjun Raj Arjun Raj Joel Kimmel Raj and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania invented a technique for tracking how a cell's genes are expressed. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten. Like the 110 honorees before them, the members of this year's class are dramatically reshaping their fields--and the future. Some are tackling pragmatic questions, like how to secure the Internet, while others are attacking more abstract ones, like determining the weather on distant exoplanets. The common thread between them is brilliance, of course, but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come, the world will be a safer, smarter, and brighter place.--The Editors Arjun Raj University of Pennsylvania Achievement Revealing the inner workings of cells Each cell in your body has the same DNA. But how a cell's genes are expressed-and how frequently-determines whether the cell...