Brown researchers, including Veronica Ciocanel, a doctoral student in Applied Mathematics, have developed methods to use data from FRAP, an experiment used to study how molecules move inside cells, in ways it’s never been used before. Understanding how proteins and other molecules move around inside cells is important for understanding how cells function. Scientists use an experiment called Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching, or FRAP, to investigate this molecular motion, and now Brown University researchers have developed a mathematical modeling technique that makes FRAP much more useful.