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MCDB Assistant Professor Zoe Donaldson has received one of 11 National Science Foundation EDGE ("Enabling Discovery through Genomic Tools") grant to support research toward "Understanding the Rules of Life." Through her pioneering studies on monogamous prairie voles, Donaldson seeks to understand the genomic and neuronal underpinnings of complex social behaviors...

Best known as a pathogen that causes food poisoning or steals nutrients away from its host, the E. coli bacterium actually plays a critical role in promoting health by producing a compound that helps cells take up iron, new CU Boulder research shows. The study , published today in the...

Flip open an intro-to-biology textbook and you’ll likely find a cartoon image of the basic cell structure, with its kidney-bean shaped, round and oblong organs – called organelles - spread out with unique roles and little contact with each other. Thanks to Gia Voeltz, that outdated image is beginning to...

Known for his ground breaking discoveries, Professor Norm Pace returned to receive an honorary degree and delivered a special seminar.

This year's Gordon Stone Graduate Student Scholarships went to Dalton Buysse and Daniel Ramirez Hernandez.

MCDB graduate student Zach Wilson and ATLAS graduate student Lila Finch win second prize in Data Visualization Contest . Finch and Wilson combined the science of yeast and Japanese lanterns to build a beautiful representation of knowledge in microbiology. See their work here...

Please join us in celebrating 50 years of ground breaking research. Our anniversary party starts September 8, get the details and join the fun!

Tom Perkins has won a 2017 Governor’s Award for High-Impact Research. Perkins is being recognized for work described as New twists in the molecules of life . In a decade long project, Perkins developed powerful new tools to measure and study individual biomolecules.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Norman Pace of CU Boulder’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB) has been awarded the 2017 Massry Prize for his microbiome research. Pace will share the award and the $200,000 honorarium with Rob Knight of the University of California San Diego and Jeffrey Gordon of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

More than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy, in which high doses of radiation are aimed at diseased tissue to kill cancer cells. But due to a phenomenon known as radiation-induced bystander effect (RIBE), in which irradiated cells leak chemical signals that can travel some distance to damage unexposed healthy...