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ASU researchers unraveling protein structure to understand and fight disease
Proteins are one of the major building blocks of life, and they carry out many chemical reactions related to life. This includes how the body interacts with disease-causing agents. Understanding
AAAS lecture: Microbes and autism
Monday, February 8, 2021 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM MST Microbiota Transfer Therapy for Autism: Multi-Omic Approaches and Lessons Learned During every instant of life, over a hundred trillion microbes,
ASU hosts AAAS annual meeting Feb. 8-11
Arizona State University is proud to host this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, the world’s largest general scientific gathering, Feb. 8–11. This year’s virtual meeting is
ASU’s unsung heroes
Workers on one of the front lines of the pandemic keep ASU's campuses safe and running Everything the rest of us have tried to avoid for the past nine months
Cyber-evolution: How computer science is harnessing the power of Darwinian transformation
From a pair of simple principles of evolution—chance mutation and natural selection—nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering
Message in a bottle: Info-rich bubbles respond to antibiotics
Once regarded as merely cast-off waste products of cellular life, bacterial membrane vesicles (MVs) have since become an exciting new avenue of research, due to the wealth of biological information
A dose of facts: Answering your COVID-19 vaccine questions
Over 170 million people in the U.S. are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 -- more than half of the country's population. But as the virus evolves and new variants emerge,
Introduction to the molecular biology of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine candidates
Ian Hogue, PhD Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy presents: Introduction to the molecular biology of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine candidates This is part of the Navajo Emerging Infection and Tribal Communities Conference on Emerging Infection and Tribal Communities. Registration is free. Register
4 top ASU scholars named Regents Professors
They are the best and brightest and have brought honor and distinguishment to their disciplines. They’re considered the top researchers that Arizona State University has to offer, and they’re getting
The far-reaching effects of mutagens on human health
In order to survive, flourish and successfully reproduce, organisms rely on a high degree of genetic stability. Mutagenic agents, which can threaten the integrity of the genetic code by causing
How and why microbes promote and protect against stress
More than half of the human body is not actually human: The body hosts approximately 100 trillion microbes. These bacteria, yeast and viruses, which make up the human microbiome, affect
Hao Yan receives 2020 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize
Hao Yan, director of the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics at Arizona State University has been awarded the 2020 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize. The coveted award, named in honor of