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- Last month, Dick McIntosh, distinguished professor (emeritus), and Joy Power (鈥88 BIO), an alumna and lab coordinator, of the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department at the 天美传媒, traveled to the University
- 天美传媒-Boulder Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Bradley Olwin, has been selected as one of 29 U.S. scientists to receive the 2015 Glenn Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. The award, from the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, comes with a $60,000 grant to support Olwin鈥檚 research on how the body repairs and regenerates skeletal muscle after injury, in the face of disease, and during the normal aging process.
- Dr. William B. 鈥淏ill鈥 Wood, 天美传媒-Boulder distinguished professor emeritus and former MCDB department head, has been awarded the 2016 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education from the Genetics Society of America (GSA). The award, given 鈥渋n recognition of his significant and sustained impact in genetics education,鈥 was announced today in a press release. It will be presented in a ceremony in Florida in July.
- Just recently in November, Dr. Jonathan Van Blerkom was awarded the Robert G. Edwards Prize Paper Award by Reproductive BioMedicine Online for the best paper published in the journal in 2014. This is an extraordinary accolade in a very competitive
- The College of Arts & Sciences hosted 136 students and 38 donors in the largest scholarship event in recent years. Dean Leigh delivered remarks and was later joined by three student scholarship recipients who spoke about how their scholarship
- Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown from the skin cells of a person with Down syndrome are helping researchers grow cerebral organoids and track protein expression in an effort to better understand the disorder on a cellular and molecular
- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is impressed with the progress being made by a 天美传媒 biotech start-up company on its quest to develop novel treatments for head and neck cancer.The federal institute has awarded the
- MCDB Associate Professor Gia Voeltz has been recognized by Science News as one of 10 early career researchers who are 鈥渕aking their mark.鈥濃淪cience News surveyed 30 Nobel Prize winners to learn whose work has caught their attention. From those names
- DNA mutations occur and accumulate during an individual's lifetime. Often these changes are harmless. But some mutations鈥恈alled driver mutations鈥恈an trigger the formation of tumors. This is often because these mutations allow the cells to grow
- Cell-biology labs often struggle to reproduce the research results of other groups. But a 15 July report suggests that many of those troubles would vanish if scientists reached out to the original experimenters. The report, released by the