Life Sciences

Heard on Campus: C. Jessica Metcalf on ‘life history evolution’
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New faculty fall 2025
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Genes associated with obesity shared across ancestries, researchers find
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Lab Bench to Commercialization announces 2025 grant recipients
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Innovation Fellows’ Cohort for 2025 announced
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Can Digital Replicas of Patients Help Personalize Alzheimer’s Treatment?
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New grant supports creation of "digital twins” to study disease progression and treatment options.

Background genetic variants influence clinical features in complex disorders
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New research helps explain why disease-associated genetic variants can lead to variable clinical outcomes.

New microorganism survival commission aims to fill critical conservation gap
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In brief: Certain age-related DNA mutations are less common in human eggs
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New method calculates rate of gene expression to understand cell fate
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