This Month in 2015

The connection between snowboarding and getting more data from protein crystals.

Apply visual grouping principles to add clarity to information flow in pathway diagrams.

Exploring the extracellular matrix in high throughput and leaping across scientific divides as if they weren't there.

When multiple variables are associated with a response, the interpretation of a prediction equation is seldom simple.

How to make cells spill their metabolic guts in high-throughput, and why work does not feel like work.

Creative chemical techniques to better understand tissue self-organization.

A new way to quantify ligand-binding interactions of individual membrane proteins.

How to use diamonds to image single cells, and how to have a career without ever applying for a job.

A way to generate recombinant progeny of Plasmodium falciparum for genetics experiments, and the virtues of scuba diving.

Carefully designed subplots scaled to the data are often superior to a single complex overview plot.

Tracking cell cycles in vivo, and the temptation of science fiction.

Today's predictions are tomorrow's priors.

Birth-dating proteins and shaping an institute from the first building block.

Incorporate new evidence to update prior information.

Math, mass spectrometry and imaging can mix, but it takes some woodworking.

When some factors are harder to vary than others, a split plot design can be efficient.