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Visualizing Science 2018: Beauty and Inspiration in College Research
College & Campus

Visualizing Science 2018: Beauty and Inspiration in College Research

Over the last six years, faculty, staff and students from across the College of Natural Sciences have submitted hundreds of images from their scholarly research for our annual Visualizing Science competition, and these images have been viewed by tens of thousands of people. The submitted images, often beautiful and stunning, are the ones that spoke to their creators, inspiring and informing them as they followed their scientific passions.

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Biodiversity Physics molecular biology Cell Biology Behavior Evolution Ecology Integrative Biology Human Ecology Human Development & Family Sciences Chemistry accolades
Inaugural Symposium Encourages Up and Coming Researchers
College & Campus

Inaugural Symposium Encourages Up and Coming Researchers

The College of Natural Sciences will be hosting the inaugural Symposium for Undergraduate Research Exploration (SURE in CNS) this fall to bring bright upper-division undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to The University of Texas at Austin to share their research and explore options to pursue advanced degrees in the sciences.

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Graduate Research Neuroscience molecular biology Cell Biology Integrative Biology Nutritional Sciences Developmental Biology
Fix for 3-Billion-Year-Old Genetic Error Could Dramatically Improve Genetic Sequencing
Molecular Biosciences

Fix for 3-Billion-Year-Old Genetic Error Could Dramatically Improve Genetic Sequencing

Visual representation of laboratory manipulation RNA in water droplets; Jared Ellefson

For 3 billion years, one of the major carriers of information needed for life, RNA, has had a glitch that creates errors when making copies of genetic information. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a fix that allows RNA to accurately proofread for the first time.

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molecular biology Genetics Evolution Cell Biology
Promising New Target in War Against Flu
Molecular Biosciences

Promising New Target in War Against Flu

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a protein produced by the influenza A virus, which causes flu, can overcome one of our body's natural defense mechanisms. That makes this flu protein a potentially good target for antiviral drugs directed against the flu virus

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Graduate Research Cell Biology health & medicine infectious disease molecular biology
Bacteria Suppress Their Antibiotic-Resistant Cousins
Physics

Bacteria Suppress Their Antibiotic-Resistant Cousins

Researchers studying a dangerous type of bacteria have discovered that the bacteria have the ability to block both their own growth and the growth of their antibiotic-resistant mutants. The discovery might lead to better ways to fight a class of bacteria that have contributed to a growing public health crisis by becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotic treatments.

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Systems & Synthetic Biology infectious disease health & medicine Cell Biology
New Protein Booster May Lead to Better DNA Vaccines and Gene Therapy
Molecular Biosciences

New Protein Booster May Lead to Better DNA Vaccines and Gene Therapy

Scientists have discovered a new way to manipulate how cells function, a finding that might help advance an experimental approach to improving public health: DNA vaccines, which could be more efficient, less expensive and easier to store than traditional vaccines.

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Cell Biology Drugs & Diagnostics Genetics health & medicine Immunology infectious disease molecular biology
Always and Forever: A Microscopic Love Story
Integrative Biology

Always and Forever: A Microscopic Love Story

In the world of living things, surely one of the oddest relationships is the one between certain insects and the bacteria they can't seem to live without. Such bacteria, called obligate symbionts live inside the host's cells. They're distinct organisms -- they have their own DNA separate from that of the host. And yet, if you try to remove the bacteria, the host dies. And vice versa.

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Microbiology Genetics Evolution Ecology Cell Biology
Cyanobacterium Found in UT Algae Collection Holds Biotech Promise
Molecular Biosciences

Cyanobacterium Found in UT Algae Collection Holds Biotech Promise

A fast-growing bacterial strain found on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin in the 1950s might ultimately prove useful for carbon sequestration, biofuel production, biosynthesis of valuable chemicals and the search for novel pharmaceuticals, scientists announced in newly published paper.

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Organismal Biology Evolution Cell Biology
Cancer Awareness and the Role of Natural Sciences at UT
College & Campus

Cancer Awareness and the Role of Natural Sciences at UT

Bicycling many miles through the Texas Hill Country in support of one of the world’s most well-known cancer-fighting charitable organizations probably sounds like a great way to spend an October day, no matter who you are. Here at the College of Natural Sciences (CNS), members of our community have yet another reason to support LIVESTRONG, the nonp...
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cancer Cell Biology health & medicine
Staying on the Grid: Placing a Nobel-prize Winning Neuroscience Discovery in a UT Austin Context
Neuroscience

Staying on the Grid: Placing a Nobel-prize Winning Neuroscience Discovery in a UT Austin Context

Yesterday, three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of two types of brain cells involved in keeping track of where we are when moving around. Called place cells and grid cells, they may hold the key to understanding aspects of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's. Laura Colgin, who did research with two of the prize-winning scientists awarded this year’s Nobel Prize, is now an associate professor of neuroscience in the University of Texas at Austin’s College of Natural Sciences who continues to investigate the role of place cells in spacial memory tasks and more.

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Learning & Memory Cell Biology Behavior