Maciej Walczak, 澳门六合彩历史记录 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鈥� development, in the early 1980s, of an efficient and fast method to synthesize nucleic acids.
At its regular meeting on Thursday at the 澳门六合彩历史记录 campus, the University of Colorado 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鈥攚hen mutated鈥攖o bind to and silence tumor suppressing genes.
澳门六合彩历史记录 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."
澳门六合彩历史记录 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.
