CBS News, Nature, and GEN News all reached out to CRISPR expert Dana Carroll to get his input after news broke of a Chinese scientist claiming to have helped make...
Dr. Helena Safavi, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the U of U, talks about insulin in cone snail venom and how it can be used to help people with diabetes.
Carroll's study found that segments of DNA can wrap around a protein into a nucleosome to protect itself from being cut by CRISPR-Cas9, making targeted editing of genes more difficult.
James Fulcher received the Marjorie Riches Gunn student award for Graduate Student Excellence at the 2018 Biochemistry Bash and Award Ceremony. Jörg Votteller received the Eveline Bruenger Postdoctoral Award for...
James Cox, Director of the Metabolomics Core, describes its capabilities and equipment, and Claudio, Jared and Scott explain how the Core supports their research.
Biochemistry Senior Account Kay Willden retires after 43 years working at the University of Utah and 11 years in Biochemistry. Kay had a retirement open house on May 30th. A...
We are very sad to note the passing of Eveline Bruenger. She will be missed. Eveline was a vibrant person and a great friend to the department, and she will...
Recent graduate, Niladri Sinha, Ph.D. (Bass Lab) has been selected for a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award to recognize outstanding achievement in Graduate Studies. Niladri will be participating in...
Cell biologist Janet Iwasa discusses how the 3D animation that brought to life Pixar animations is illustrating complex scientific concepts to tell stories of a different kind.
Erhu Cao presents - "Structures and Mechanisms of Renal Ion Transporters and Channels", & Dana Carroll presents - "Changing Genes for Better or for Worse" at the 2017 Vitae Talks.
Assistant professor of Biochemistry, Demián Cazalla, PhD, and lead author Carlos Gorbea, PhD, have published in Nature a mechanism of infection that makes use of new viral non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs).
3D animations could help you finally understand molecular science. Janet Iwasa of the U of U is trying to make thorny scientific data and models approachable to the common eye.
The 2017 Rising Star Symposium will take place on September 21st & 22nd from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Erik Jorgensen, a Distinguished Professor...
Older adults are known to be more sensitive to the cold, new research has found that a nutritional supplement might one day be used to jump-start the body’s central heating.
With Dana Carroll’s 2017 election into the National Academy of Sciences, our department now boasts three elected members. Wes Sundquist was elected in 2014 and Brenda Bass in 2015.
Wesley I. Sundquist, distinguished professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah, was honored with the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the U’s most prestigious faculty award.
Michael Kay, distinguished professor of biochemistry at the University of Utah received The Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Distinguished Mentor Award.
Biochemist Janet Iwasa, Ph.D., has been selected as a TED2017 Senior Fellow, selected for her extraordinary work and contributions to the TED community.
Biochemistry hosts the Rising Stars Symposium on September 22nd and 23rd highlighting accomplished young scientists from across the country to share their research in Structural Biology/Imaging and Cell Biology (day...