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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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$6 Million Award from Cancer Agency Supports Bringing Researcher to UT Austin
A Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas award will underwrite the hire of a leading cancer researcher to serve as chair of the Department of Molecular Biosciences.
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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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Center for Infectious Disease Named for Dr. John Ring LaMontagne
A research center at The University of Texas at Austin will be renamed for Dr. John Ring LaMontagne, a scientist who combated infectious diseases to improve public health around the globe.
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UT Austin Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Jonathan Sessler of the Department of Chemistry and George Georgiou of the Department of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
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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.
Visualizing Science 2015: Beautiful Images From College Research
As part of a continuing tradition, we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images this past spring that celebrated the magnificent beauty of science and the scientific process. Our goal was to find those moments where science and art become one and the same.
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.
Beauty and the Yeast
The lowly yeast turns out to be a powerful model organism for understanding human biology and disease