Chemistry and Biochemistry
Using innovative fluorescent sensors and computational modeling, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder biochemistry researcher Amy Palmer tracked naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient.
Maciej Walczak, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder associate professor of chemistry, won a $2 million NIH grant to investigate how certain sugars modify a brain protein associated with neurodegeneration.
The $400,000 award recognizes the far-reaching medical impact of Caruthers’ development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
Army, non-traditional path at Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder led Olester Benson to 2018 George Norlin Award.
At its regular meeting on Thursday at the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder campus, the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Board of Regents voted to approve a new online Bachelor of Arts degree in interdisciplinary studies and two new departments for the Boulder campus.
Forty years after researchers first discovered it in fruit flies, a once-obscure cluster of proteins called PRC2 has become a key target for new cancer-fighting drugs, due to its tendency—when mutated—to bind to and silence tumor suppressing genes.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professors Natalie Ahn and Karolin Luger have been inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, an honor that recognizes "distinguished and continuing achievements in original research."
Two Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder professors are among the latest group of scientists, politicians, artists and more elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017.
Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder researchers have discovered a potent, drug-like compound that could someday revolutionize treatment of autoimmune diseases by inhibiting a protein instrumental in prompting the body to start attacking its own tissue.