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Read the latest news from the Department of Molecular Biosciences.
Potential New Drug Target Could Boost Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs
September 15, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a large family of reverse transcriptases (RTs)—enzymes that are found in all organisms and...
William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow
September 12, 2022 • by the Department of Molecular Biosciences
Congratulations Lulu Cambronne, William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow
New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment
August 25, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
The Long-Term Evolution Experiment began back when a dozen eggs cost 65 cents, the film Rain Man topped the box office and George Michael’s song...
Plastic-eating Enzyme Could Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
April 27, 2022 • by Staff Writer
Live Cell Imaging Reveals New Clues About Processes Linked to Birth Defects
April 26, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
UT Biologist Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
April 14, 2022 • by Esther R Robards-Forbes
John Wallingford, professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
New Vaccine Advances Could Help Against More Viral Illnesses
March 14, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
Some of the same researchers at The University of Texas at Austin who created a key to all coronavirus vaccines used in the U.S. have...
Dried Bacteria Could Revolutionize Testing, Laboratory Science
March 3, 2022 • by Esther R Robards-Forbes
When you think of the type of labs driving biomedical discoveries, you may envision beakers and test tubes filled with a rainbow of chemicals, where...
A New Way to Disarm Antibiotic Resistance in Deadly Bacteria
February 22, 2022 • by Marc Airhart
