(l to r) Hopi E. Hoekstra, Dana Brimmer, and Jesse Weber Many animals build elaborate structures—bees make hives, birds build nests, and rodents construct burrows—for which Richard Dawkins…
(l to r) Tara Bennett, Prof. Rob Lue, Susan Johnson, Prof. Catherine Dulac, and Alia Qatarneh For the past decade, the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology has…
Assistant Professor Ethan Garner has been selected for a three-year, $300,000 award from the Smith Family Awards Program for Excellence in Biomedical Research. The program was created in…
Anna Puszynska, Carolina Salguero, Prof. Cassandra Extavour, Didem Sarikaya, Kristian Herrera, Christina Saak, and Prof. Victoria D'Souza Carolina Salguero, a native of Bogota, Colombia, is a second year…
Arvind Subramaniam The genetic code is degenerate because most of the amino acids used in protein synthesis are encoded by multiple nucleotide triplets, or codons. The amino acid…