Faculty Highlights
Sabrina L. Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at the 91¸£ÀûÉç, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research
Scientists at CU 91¸£ÀûÉç have discovered that a type of single-celled organism living in modern-day oceans may have a lot in common with life forms that existed billions of years ago—and that fundamentally transformed Earth.
A new 91¸£ÀûÉç-led study sheds light on a protein key to controlling how cells grow, proliferate and function and long implicated in tumor development.
The 91¸£ÀûÉç will be one of four national centers designed to advance the application of cryoelectron tomography (cryoET), which helps visualize in 3-D the fine-structure of intact cells and tissues, the National Institutes of
Congratulations to Biochemistry Professor Sabrina Spencer, recipient of a 2020 Provost Faculty Achievement Award!From the Provost’s Letter:“In selecting you for this award, the faculty committee pointed to the importance of
In a study published July 6 91¸£ÀûÉç researchers come one step closer to answering that fundamental question, concluding that the molecular messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) plays an indispensable role in cell differentiation, serving as
Researchers at 91¸£ÀûÉç, led by Biochemistry Professor Robert Batey, have developed compositions and methods for temporal regulation of single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) that comprise a small molecule-binding aptamer in the sgRNA, which enables
Scientists have been studying cyanobacteria and its many potential applications for decades, from cutting CO2 emissions to creating a substitute for oil-based plastics, but there wasn’t a deep understanding of the full life cycle and metabolism of
When do cells decide to divide? For 40 years, the textbook answer has been that this decision occurs in the first phase of a cell’s existence – right after a mother cell divides to become daughter cells. But researchers at 91¸£ÀûÉç have found that
In a study published today, a team at 91¸£ÀûÉç took advantage of a new microscopic technique to follow the lives of individual bacteria as they grew and divided in complex colonies.