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Building materials come alive with help from bacteria

Jan. 15, 2020

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers have developed a new approach to designing more sustainable buildings with help from some of the tiniest contractors out there.

Yang Liu and Keda Zhou

Meet DNA’s chaperone

Nov. 26, 2019

Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein—a mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA

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Lab Venture Challenge

Nov. 19, 2019

Lab Venture Challenge awards $900,000 to promising bioscience, physical science and engineering ventures

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The unexpected complexities of TERT, a key cancer driver

Sept. 11, 2019

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), an enzyme associated with nearly all malignant human cancers, is even more diverse and unconventional than previously realized according to new research by CU Biochem and BioFrontiers' Distinguished Professor Thomas Cech and Professor John Rinn.

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A key ‘kill switch’ in a gene-regulating protein group

Sept. 9, 2019

ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) biochemists have revealed a key regulatory process in a gene-suppressing protein group that could hold future applications for drug discovery and clinical treatment of diseases, including cancer.

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ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· spinout OnKure Therapeutics enrolls first cancer patient in clinical trial

June 19, 2019

A new drug therapy for cancer treatment, spun out of research performed in a ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· biochemistry lab , may provide better results for patients with solid cancers and hematologic cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.

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Biochemist wins top award for study of cellular proliferation

Oct. 5, 2018

NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program to fund Sabrina Spencer’s ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· research that could shed light on cancer treatment Scientists do not fully understand how cells choose between proliferation and quiescence (a state of non-proliferation) but a University of Colorado Boulder biochemist’s novel proposal to study the issue has won...

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National Academy of Sciences inducts 2 ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· professors

May 10, 2018

Pioneering biochemists 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." Membership in the prestigious organization is widely considered to be one of the highest honors that a scientist can receive.

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2 ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· faculty named 2017 National Academy of Inventors fellows

Jan. 9, 2018

The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) named two ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· faculty members to its class of fellows for 2017. Distinguished Professor Marvin Caruthers of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Ʒ’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was honored for his pioneering contributions to the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA, making it possible to decode and encode genes and genomes.

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Microbe may explain evolutionary origins of DNA folding

Aug. 11, 2017

In the cells of palm trees, humans, and some single-celled microorganisms, DNA gets bent the same way. Now, by studying the 3-D structure of proteins bound to DNA in microbes called Archaea, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have turned up surprising similarities to DNA packing in more complicated organisms.

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