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Vivien Marx

Multi-Platform Editor at Nature

Multi-Platform Editor at Nature Methods

Journalist, views mine. Pieces in @naturemethods, @NatureBiotech, @Nature, @TheLancet, @newscientist, @sz, @ARTEfr. Multimedia, too.

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  • 2 days ago | mbl.edu | Vivien Marx

    Summertime is a cool drink in the sun or shade, perhaps a swim, a picnic, a bike ride or a tour of an ancient city. To enjoy such past times alongside working in the lab seems like a plan hatched in a hazy summertime nap. But summer courses can enable such plans. Here are reflections on two of the many summer courses that graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and senior scientists take.

  • 3 days ago | nature.com | Vivien Marx

    Some graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and senior researchers choose a special kind of science-focused summer.

  • 4 days ago | nature.com | Vivien Marx

    Scientists track how these membraneless biomolecular foci self-organize for their cellular tasks. You have full access to this article via your institution. Condensates are diverse membraneless organelles in eukaryotic cells. Fluorescently tagged components of nucleolar condensates are seen here in Xenopus eggs. Condensates in a eukaryotic cell’s cytoplasm or nucleus are imbued with otherness1,2,3.

  • 1 month ago | nature.com | Vivien Marx

    Scientists face many pressures, plenty of which are about identity. Researchers draw strength from within and from allies.

  • Feb 17, 2025 | nature.com | Vivien Marx

    Vectors can be the ultimate vehicle for transporting material into cells. Except when they’re not so ultimate. Vectors can surprise in good and, sometimes, bad ways. These tools, which can be modified viruses, are in broad use in life science labs. They ferry materials into cells, which may be DNA fragments, genes or in the case of CRISPR, components such as a guide RNA and a Cas enzyme.

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