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Discovery of The First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle

Discovery of The First Nitrogen-Fixing Organelle

In two recent papers, a team of scientists led by Jonathan Zehr of UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) describe the first known nitrogen-fixing organelle within a eukaryotic cell. The organelle, which they dubbed nitroplast, is the fourth example in the history of life on this planet of a prokaryotic cell being engulfed by a eukaryotic cell and evolving beyond symbiosis into an organelle.

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Microscopy & Microanalysis 2023 in Minneapolis, MN

It was great to see the biological soft X-ray tomography community reunited in Minneapolis during the M&M meeting 2023. We had several insightful talks and we saw the progresses made by X-ray imaging in the past years.