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Congratulations to Bruce R. Donald, who was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in...
A recent publication in Cell from the Al-Hashimi Lab:
A banana a day may not keep the doctor away, but...
DURHAM, NC - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that Paul Modrich, Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University,...
Recent publication in Science from the Schumacher lab:
Structures of archaeal DNA segregation machinery reveal bacterial and
eukaryotic...
Congratulations to Benjamin Fenton, a first year Biochemistry graduate student in the laboratory of Professor Pei Zhou, for being awarded...
Work carried out by the laboratories of Professors Maria A. Schumacher and Richard G. Brennan in collaboration with Professor Kim Lewis of Northeastern University has been published in the 29 July 2015 on-line edition of Nature describing the structural basis or recurring urinary tract infections and the molecular basis of heritable bacterial multidrug tolerance.
DURHAM, N.C. - Practically everyone gets fatter as they get older, but some people can blame their genes for the...
Professor Pei Zhou is teaming up with Drs. Eric Toone and Vance Fowler to come up with new ways to beat back multidrug resistant bacteria. On 22 April 2015, this team of investigators garnered a DTRI Pilot Program Award to begin this exciting work.
On 1 June 2015 the Department of Biochemistry welcomed its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Haung-he Yang. Dr. Yang is also...
On 30 April 2015, Professor Hashim M. Al-Hashimi was named a James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry for his outstanding contributions to our understanding of nucleic acid structure, function and dynamics. Professor Al-Hashimi is the eighth primary Biochemistry faculty member to be awarded an endowed chair.