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  • Professor Norm Pace
    Known for his ground breaking discoveries, Professor Norm Pace returned to receive an honorary degree and delivered a special seminar.
  • Award being given.
    This year's Gordon Stone Graduate Student Scholarships went to Dalton Buysse and Daniel Ramirez Hernandez.
  • Zach and Lila
    MCDB graduate student Zach Wilson and ATLAS graduate student Lila Finch win second prize in Data Visualization Contest. Finch and Wilson combined the science of yeast and Japanese lanterns to build a beautiful representation of knowledge in
  • Schematic of an atomic force microscope in action.
    Tom Perkins has won a 2017 Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research. Perkins is being recognized for work described as New twists in the molecules of life. In a decade long project, Perkins developed powerful new tools to measure and study
  • Norman Pace
    Distinguished Professor Emeritus Norman Pace of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) has been awarded the 2017 Massry Prize for his microbiome research. Pace will share the award and the $200,000 honorarium with Rob Knight of the University of California San Diego and Jeffrey Gordon of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
  • A patient prepares to undergo radiation therapy. Credit: National Cancer Institute
    More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed at diseased tissue to kill cancer cells. But due to a phenomenon known as radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE), in which irradiated cells leak
  • The National Academy of Sciences today announced the election of 84 new members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing research achievements. Election to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the nation’s most prestigious scientific honors.  Among the newly elected members, four are MCDB alumni.
  • Image of authors Min Han and Hongyun Tang
    Proper nutrition can unleash amazing powers, moms have always assured us, frequently citing Popeye the Sailor Man as evidence. Now, two University of Colorado Boulder scientists have confirmed just how potent some nutrients can be.

    In findings published today in the journal Cell, postdoctoral fellow Hongyun Tang and Professor Min Han, both of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, detail how fat levels in a tiny soil-dwelling roundworm (C. elegans) can tip the balance between whether the worm makes eggs or sperm.

    Although the researchers discovered this phenomenon in worms, the research could have implications for future studies into human fertility and reproductive development.
  • Tom Perkins and JILA team unfold proteins with precise new instrumentation
  • Students in lab.
    Undergraduate students at the University of Colorado will soon enjoy a new means of conducting scientific laboratory research, as ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· is one of 11 U.S. institutions to receive a 2017 Beckman Scholars Program Award.
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