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UT Austin and Texas A&M Scientists Seek to Turn Plant Pests into Plant Doctors

Sap-sucking pests could deliver gene therapy to plants under attack from diseases, droughts or floods

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Drug Engineered at UT Austin to Treat Anthrax Gains FDA Approval

The anthrax antitoxin obiltoxaximab received approval March 21 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Scientists Study How DNA Repairs Itself Through Single Molecule Imaging

UT Austin scientists are doing research, which uses novel single-molecule imaging techniques partially developed by Finkelstein, and could lead to a better understanding of how cancerous cells repair their DNA.

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Scientists Find Leukemia’s Surroundings Key to its Growth

A research team led by Lauren Ehrlich of the Department of Molecular Biosciences has discovered that a type of cancer found primarily in children can grow only when signaled to do so by other nearby cells that are noncancerous.

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Chemistry in Mold Reveals Important Clue for Pharmaceuticals

In a discovery from the lab of Jessie Zhang that holds promise for future drug development, scientists have detected for the first time how nature performs an impressive trick to produce key chemicals similar to those in drugs that fight malaria, bacterial infections and cancer.

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Study Shows Common Molecular Tool Kit Organisms Share Across Tree of Life

Researchers at UT Austin discovered the assembly instructions for nearly 1,000 protein complexes shared by most kinds of animals.

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Genetic Road Map May Bring About Better Cotton Crops

A University of Texas at Austin scientist, working with an international research team, has developed the most precise sequence map yet of U.S. cotton and will soon create an even more detailed map for navigating the complex cotton genome.

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Biomedical, Chemical Engineering Professor George Georgiou Named UT Austin Inventor of the Year

UT Austin's 2014 Inventor of the Year award was presented to Georgiou by the Office of Technology Commercialization.

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Trapping a Bacterium in a Laser Beam Aids Study of Biofilms

Biofilms are responsible for most chronic infections and are notoriously resilient and hard to treat.