GCB News Claire Engstrom, a Student Researcher Working to Treat Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy by Optimizing CRISPR-cas9 Meet Claire Engstrom, a Senior from Pasadena California. Claire is a Biology major who works in the Gersbach Lab at Duke. view
GCB News It’s time to grow up Stem cells have the potential to turn into any cell type, which makes them an incredibly powerful tool for disease modeling and... view
GCB News GCB Welcomes New Members This fall, GCB welcomed two new members: Anne Yoder, Ph.D., and Purushothama Rao Tata, Ph.D. view
December 1, 2020 Research Roundup: November 2020 Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in November 2020:
November 23, 2020 Incorporating Genomics into Lymphoma Classification Can Improve Care By Lynne Lederman, Ph.D. - Targeted Oncology
November 18, 2020 Childhood Lead Exposure Leads to Structural Changes in Middle-aged Brains Study participants had lead exposures typical for the 1970s By Karl Leif Bates
November 10, 2020 Researchers Discover Bacterial DNA’s Recipe for Success A single criterion predicts whether a genetic package such as antibiotic resistance will thrive in a given environment By Ken Kingery
November 2, 2020 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative tackles synthetic biology Lingchong You and Ashutosh Chilkoti, are collaborators on a five-year, $7.5 million MURI award.
November 2, 2020 Research Roundup: October 2020 Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in October 2020
October 23, 2020 Spring Seminar on Computational Biology focuses on SARS-Cov-2 and COVID-19 Bruce Donald, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, will offer a seminar in the spring focused on COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 and therapeutic design.
October 23, 2020 GCB helps spin out success In FY20, 17 new start-up companies formed at Duke, according to Duke’s Office of Licensing and Ventures (OLV).
October 21, 2020 Transcription Factors May Inadvertently Lock in DNA Mistakes Binding to mismatched DNA takes less energy; may explain how regulatory mutations get locked in
October 16, 2020 PINPOINTING THE 'SILENT' MUTATIONS THAT GAVE THE CORONAVIRUS AN EVOLUTIONARY EDGE RNA folding may help explain how the coronavirus became so hard to stop after it spilled over from wildlife to humans.