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New Era at UT Austin Begins for Famous Long-Term Evolution Experiment

After 34 years and 75,000 generations of bacterial evolution, the Long-Term Evolution Experiment moved to the University of Texas at Austin in summer 2022.

Jeff Barrick examines a dish of E. coli

Accolades

UT Biologist Awarded Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

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.

John Wallingford Headshot

Research

New Vaccine Advances Could Help Against More Viral Illnesses

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...

Image of researchers Ching-Lin Hsieh and Jason McLellan at a computer screen reviewing data

Research

Dried Bacteria Could Revolutionize Testing, Laboratory Science

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...

Microscopic images of E.coli bacteria.

Research

Unraveling How One of the Most Important Cell Types Form

Microscope image of cells