Kevin Sanbonmatsu and Scott Hennelly work at the National Stable Isotope Resource at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to understand how ribonucleic acid molecules act as genetic switches to regulate protein synthesis. Photo by LeRoy Sanchez.

Kevin Sanbonmatsu and Scott Hennelly work at the National Stable Isotope Resource at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to understand how ribonucleic acid molecules act as genetic switches to regulate protein synthesis.

Photo by LeRoy Sanchez.