CLICK HERE FOR THE ACTIVITY POLL!! (poll is over) As the weather warms up, we all find ourselves resurfacing from winter hibernation. Not only are we spending more…
Forty-one years ago, Jim Wang discovered the first of a family of enzymes crucial to the disentanglement of DNA strands or double helices during various cellular processes…
Pictured Left to Right: Chris McCartney-Melstad (Graduate Programs Office), Dario Cabrera (G3, Murray Lab), Michael Lawrence (Graduate Programs Office), Katherine Rogers (G1, Schier Lab), Valerie Pivorunas (G2, Burton…
This year's Prather Lectures will be delivered by J. Craig Venter, Founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Inc. Venter, a world expert on Reading…
On Saturday, April 25, the second Engineering and Physical Biology (EPB) Symposium will be held at the Fairchild Lecture Hall, 7 Divinity Ave. Speakers from constituent fields –…
Microbes (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists) are ubiquitous on Earth and affect every part of our lives, yet they are mostly invisible. Microbial scientists believe the vast…
Rich Losick The Gairdner Foundation announced on March 31 that MCB's Maria Moors Cabot Professor of Biology Rich Losick was one of seven recipients of its 2009 Canada…
More than a century ago, famous neuroanatomist and histologist Ramon y Cajal proposed the idea that a neuron receives information through its extensive dendritic tree and sends it…
(L to R) Areez Mody and Sharad Ramanathan During evolution certain gene families have increased in number following gene duplication by repeatedly finding novel functions even though random…
