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Dense Bacterial Populations Create Mutant Breeding Grounds for Antibiotic Resistance
New discovery could make it easier to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Students Win Big at International Synthetic Biology Competition
A team of 12 undergraduate students at UT Austin received top awards at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, including placing in the top 10...

Texas Biologics to Bolster Research in Therapeutics
A cross-disciplinary effort made up of world-renowned faculty members and researchers working across all areas of therapeutics has launched at UT Austin.

2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award
Congratulations Johann Eberhart, Awarded a 2022 CNS Teaching Excellence Award

New Research Advances Fight Against Human Metapneumovirus
New research could pave the way for a vaccine for a common respiratory virus.

Potential New Drug Target Could Boost Effectiveness of Chemotherapy Drugs
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
Congratulations Lulu Cambronne, William H. Tonn Professorial Fund Fellow

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.

Bringing Developmental Biology to South Texas
Over the last two decades, John Wallingford has taught developmental biology short courses to students at two of the country's most highly prestigious and competitive biological research institutions...

Scientists Hijack Bacteria To Ease Drug Manufacturing
Scientists have created biosensors from bacteria that will help speed up analysis of drug manufacturing, harnessing microbes to help detect therapeutic molecules.
