A moment’s introspection reveals that our perceptions and actions are strongly affected by our behavioral states. Whether you are sleepy, awake, distracted or vigilant will affect how you…
Briana Burton Each time the world girds itself for a new epidemic, scientists give the public a refresher course on how genes jump species, giving us flu strains…
Co-authors Soni Lacefield, Derek T. C. Lau, and Andrew W. Murray Errors in chromosome segregation can often lead to human disease. For example, chromosomal instability is a hallmark…
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…
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…
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…
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…