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Researchers Create Largest Ever Map of Plant Proteins and Their Assemblies

Their findings could have applications crop yields, disease and stress resistance in plants, and informing biofuel production.

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Podcast

Science Amid the Social Distance

A compilation from our previous episodes that we hope will help you find some solace right now: in rediscovering life, the people we're closest with and the universe.

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Accolades

Four Natural Sciences Faculty Receive President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Awards

Michael Drew, Janice Fischer, Marci Gleason and Vernita Gordon received President's Associate Teaching Excellence Awards.

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The Texas Scientist

20/20 Foresight

So what will the next 50 years bring? Absent a crystal ball, your best bet would be to ask a scientist.

Illustration by David Steadman.

Research

How Chromosomes Organize and Genes Interact Needs Rethinking, Study Finds

Bacterial DNA much more twisted than originally thought.

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Features

Graduate Researcher Studies Cells that Fight Autoimmunity

Jayashree Srinivasan works to unlock the secrets of the immune system

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Research

Bacteria Engineered to Protect Bees from Pests and Pathogens

Genetically engineered strains of bacteria protect bees from mites and viruses that can lead to colony collapse.

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Research

Discovering a Genetic Mechanism that Affects Birth Defects, Some Cancers

Steven Vokes has studied the related Hedgehog signaling pathway for much of his career.

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Features

12 Ways Texas Science Innovators Made the Most of this Year

Here are a handful of ways that members of our science and mathematics community brandished their entrepreneurial spirit this year.

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