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Day 13 of #TalesFromTheLab 🎃 | Happy Halloween! We end close to the beginning: a 1910 hunt for strychnine in the blood.
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Graphic for ASBMB Journals’ “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 13. A vintage botanical illustration of a leafy flowering plant is surrounded by swirling teal smoke against a dark background.
October 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Day 12 of #TalesFromTheLab 🍄 | Up close with the death cap toxin: a cryo-EM structure shows why it binds mammalian Pol II about 3,000× more tightly than yeast Pol II.
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Graphic for ASBMB Journals’ “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 12. A bright red-orange mushroom with white spots appears against a forest background, framed by swirling blue smoke.
October 30, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Day 11 of #TalesFromTheLab 🍄 | An emperor poisoned with mushrooms in 54 AD. Two millennia later, JBC showed how the death cap toxin halts transcription step by step.
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Day 11 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. Three mushrooms framed by swirling orange smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 29, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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Day 10 of #TalesFromTheLab 🕷️ | Sphingomyelinase D belongs to the enzyme family behind brown recluse bite damage. In JLR, it became a tool for probing cell membranes in C. pseudotuberculosis.
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Day 10 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. Several blue, rod-shaped bacteria appear against a glowing blue background, framed by swirling purple smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 28, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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Day 8 of #TalesFromTheLab ☠️ | Black mamba. Two toxins sequenced, lethal in fractions of a microgram per gram of body weight. JBC, 1972.
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Day 8 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a black mamba with its mouth open against a sandy background, framed by swirling blue smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 27, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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Day 9 of #TalesFromTheLab 🧪 | How do you measure what's in a venom? MCP introduced a new way to identify and quantify individual venom proteins.
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Day 9 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a pale golden Bothrops insularis snake, known as the golden lancehead, coiled with its head resting on its body. Swirling teal smoke frames the image. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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Day 7 Of #TalesFromTheLab 🐍 | From archive to modern methods: MCP profiles the venom peptides of three pit vipers, including two near-threatened species.
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Day 7 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A tan and brown rattlesnake is coiled on rocky ground with its forked tongue extended. Swirling orange smoke frames the image.
October 25, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Day 6 of #TalesFromTheLab 🐍 | Venom week begins. From the JBC archive: decoding a green mamba toxin, one amino acid at a time.
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Day 6 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A close-up image shows a bright green snake coiled against a dark background, framed by swirling purple smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Day 5 of #TalesFromTheLab 🕵️ | Part 2 of the parasite story: lipid-tagged proteins that malaria parasites use while hiding in red blood cells, and how drugs can disrupt them.
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Day 5 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. A light microscopy image shows Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, among pink-stained red blood cells. Swirling teal smoke frames the image.
October 23, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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Day 4 of #TalesFromTheLab 🩸 | The malaria parasite lives inside your red blood cells and builds its membranes partly from the hemoglobin it digests.

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Day 4 of ASBMB Journals’ “Tales From the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween” collection. An image of Plasmodium falciparum in the schizont stage inside a red blood cell is framed by swirling blue smoke. The ASBMB Journals logo appears at the bottom.
October 22, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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Day 3 of #TalesFromTheLab 🦇 | How do vampire bats keep blood flowing? Their saliva contains a clot-dissolving enzyme that fibrin stimulates 45,000-fold.
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Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 3. A bat hangs upside down against tree bark, framed by swirling orange smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 21, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Day 2 of #TalesFromTheLab 🐚 | This snail hunts fish. Its venom gland can be 4× the length of its body, and MCP mapped what's brewing inside it.
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Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 2. A patterned orange-and-cream cone snail rests on the seafloor, framed by swirling purple smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 20, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Day 1 of #TalesFromTheLab 🎃 | Fireflies don't waste their glow: this JBC study found an enzyme that recycles the spent light-emitting molecule back into fresh fuel.
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Graphic for “Tales from the Laboratory: 13 Days of Halloween,” Day 1. A glowing green firefly rests on a leaf against a dark blue background, surrounded by wispy teal smoke. ASBMB Journals logo at bottom.
October 19, 2026 at 8:46 PM