Andrew Pelling likes to rock out at the nanoscale. Working with a musician colleague, he applied his knowledge of physical chemistry and an atomic force microscope to record sounds of a living yeast cell oscillating. "The Dark Side of the Cell" was an artistic offshoot of his PhD work in which he managed to convert the nanoscale cell movements he had co-discovered into sound. Now, having turned down offers from Germany, Japan and the United States, Pelling is pursuing his research on cell mechanics at the new London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London.
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