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Dr. William B. “Bill” Wood, CU-Boulder distinguished professor emeritus and former MCDB department head, has been awarded the 2016 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education from the Genetics Society of America (GSA). The award, given “in recognition of his significant and sustained impact in genetics education,” was announced today in a press release. It will be presented in a ceremony in Florida in July.

Just recently in November, Dr. Jonathan Van Blerkom was awarded the Robert G. Edwards Prize Paper Award by Reproductive BioMedicine Online for the best paper published in the journal in 2014. This is an extraordinary accolade in a very competitive

The College of Arts & Sciences hosted 136 students and 38 donors in the largest scholarship event in recent years. Dean Leigh delivered remarks and was later joined by three student scholarship recipients who spoke about how their scholarship

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown from the skin cells of a person with Down syndrome are helping researchers grow cerebral organoids and track protein expression in an effort to better understand the disorder on a cellular and molecular

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is impressed with the progress being made by a University of Colorado Boulder biotech start-up company on its quest to develop novel treatments for head and neck cancer.The federal institute has awarded the

MCDB Associate Professor Gia Voeltz has been recognized by Science News as one of 10 early career researchers who are “making their mark.”“Science News surveyed 30 Nobel Prize winners to learn whose work has caught their attention. From those names

DNA mutations occur and accumulate during an individual's lifetime. Often these changes are harmless. But some mutations‐called driver mutations‐can trigger the formation of tumors. This is often because these mutations allow the cells to grow

Cell-biology labs often struggle to reproduce the research results of other groups. But a 15 July report suggests that many of those troubles would vanish if scientists reached out to the original experimenters. The report, released by the

MCDB is pleased to announce that the first Blumenthal Fellowship in Down Syndrome has been awarded to Amber Sorenson, a PhD student in Robin Dowell's lab in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and the

Norman Pace, a University of Colorado Boulder distinguished professor in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology (MCDB), is retiring after this semester.His research and teaching career has been punctuated with prestigious awards, including