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Meghan Murphy (B.S. ’15, Biological Sciences) Awarded Fulbright Fellowship to Botswana

13 Sep 17

Mosquito-killing Fungi Engineered with Spider and Scorpion Toxins Could Help Fight Malaria

13 Jun 17

These cross-section images show three-dimensional human skin models made of living skin cells. Untreated model skin (left panel) shows a thinner dermis layer (black arrow) compared with model skin treated with the antioxidant methylene blue (right panel). A new study suggests that methylene blue could slow or reverse dermal thinning (a sign of aging) and a number of other symptoms of aging in human skin. Image credit: Zheng-Mei Xiong/University of Maryland

Common Antioxidant Could Slow Symptoms of Aging in Human Skin

30 May 17

New Method Enables Creation of Better Therapeutic Antibodies

13 Mar 17

This pair of ribbon diagram images compares the three-dimensional structures of two closely related proteins

New Link Found Between Sex and Viruses

22 Feb 17

Dr. Corcoran working on a dental patient

Portraits of Humanitarians

19 Oct 16

Roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) with a disabled eri-1 gene can lose their ability to control repetitive DNA. In the absence of eri-1, even two age-matched siblings can look dramatically different. These differences are because of variable expression from high-copy DNA (green) but not from low-copy DNA (magenta) in the worms’ intestinal cells. In worms with a functional eri-1 gene, even multi-copy DNA is expressed uniformly in all animals.

UMD Researchers Discover a Way That Animals Keep Their Cells Identical

25 Jul 16

DNA

New Method Identifies Genetic Factors That Could Contribute to Risk for Heart Disease

12 Oct 15

Salmonella

Extreme Heat and Precipitation Are Increasing Salmonella Infections, UMD Study Shows

02 Jul 15

New Mechanism of Epigenetic Inheritance Could Advance Study of Evolution and Disease Treatment

02 Feb 15

Blind cavefish

Blind Cave Fish May Provide Insight on Eye Disease and Other Human Health Issues

21 Oct 14

Mihai Pop

Scientists Identify New Microbes Associated with Severe Diarrhea

27 Jun 14

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