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Roy Parker honored with Distinguished Research Lectureship

Sept. 6, 2021

Roy Parker of Biochemistry and the BioFrontiers Institute, alongside Rebecca Maloy of the College of Music, have been selected to receive 2021-2022 Distinguished Research Lectureships.

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PhD student, professor win major inclusivity fellowship

Aug. 2, 2021

Briana Aboulache and Karolin Luger win Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellowship, which looks to build a more inclusive scientific environment

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How a tangled protein kills brain cells, promotes Alzheimer's

April 23, 2021

Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau.

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How a ‘rag tag team’ of scientists joined forces to fight COVID-19 on campus

March 16, 2021

For nearly one year, a group of scientists and volunteers from across the university has met seven days a week, often sleeping just a few hours a night, to bring students back to campus safely.

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ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· scientists win $1.2M for cutting-edge microscopy center

March 4, 2021

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have won a $1.2 million award to establish a Center for Light Sheet Microscopy and Data Science, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has announced.

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Popular breast cancer drugs don’t work the way we thought they did

Feb. 4, 2021

Some of the most commonly used drugs for treating hereditary breast and ovarian cancers may not work the way we thought they did, according to new ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· research .

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Biochemist wins $750k for novel cancer research

Feb. 3, 2021

Sabrina L. Spencer, assistant professor of biochemistry and member of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of five new winners of a 2021 Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announced recently . She is also one of seven new winners of...

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Modern microbes provide window into ancient ocean

Jan. 6, 2021

Scientists at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· 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.

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New insights on a common protein could lead to novel cancer treatments

Nov. 4, 2020

A new ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·-led study sheds light on a protein key to controlling how cells grow, proliferate and function and long implicated in tumor development.

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With NIH grant, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· to become national center of cryoelectron tomography

Sept. 21, 2020

The University of Colorado Boulder 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 Health announced (NIH) today.

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