Structures Reveal Basis of Recurring Urinary Tract Infections
A collaboration including the Schumacher and Brennan Labs show that a protein called HipA acts as a kind of molecular Sandman, putting bacterial cells to sleep so they can live another day.
Welcome Assistant Professor, Dr. Yang
On 1 June 2015, the Department of Biochemistry welcomed its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Haung-he Yang. Dr. Yang is also a member of the Ion Channel Research Unit.
Professor Hashim M. Al-Hashimi was Named a James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry
Nine members of the School of Medicine faculty were named to endowed professorships by Duke University on April 30, 2015.
'Quantum Jitters' Could Form Basis of Evolution, Cancer
The molecular machines that copy DNA in a living cell are amazingly fast and accurate at pairing up the correct bases—G with C and A with T—into each new double helix.
Robert Lefkowitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s.