Chemistry and Biochemistry
Using innovative fluorescent sensors and computational modeling, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ biochemistry researcher Amy Palmer tracked naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient.
Maciej Walczak, ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.
The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
Army, non-traditional path at ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ led Olester Benson to 2018 George Norlin Award.
At its regular meeting on Thursday at the ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ campus, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to approve a new online Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies and two new departments for the Boulder campus.
Forty years after researchers first discovered it in fruit flies, a once-obscure cluster of proteins called PRC2 has become a key target for new cancer-fighting drugs, due to its tendency—when mutated—to bind to and silence tumor suppressing genes.
¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ professors Natalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
Two ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ professors are among the latest group of scientists, politicians, artists and more elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two ¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017.
¾«Æ·SMÔÚÏßӰƬ researchers have discovered a potent, drug-like compound that could someday revolutionize treatment of autoimmune diseases by inhibiting a protein instrumental in prompting the body to start attacking its own tissue.