A Duke team was recently awarded a grant from DARPA for a research effort aimed at temporarily regulating gene expression that could help protect against pandemic flu.

Lawrence David launches new study demonstrating that DNA metabarcoding provides a promising new method for tracking human plant intake, suggesting that similar approaches could be used to characterize the animal and fungal components of human diets.

Lingchong You has devised a machine learning approach to modeling the interactions between complex variables in engineered bacteria that would otherwise be too cumbersome to predict.

The Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies, directed by GCB faculty member Charlie Gersbach, will use homegrown tools and techniques to discover potential therapies for human diseases from autism to cancer to schizophrenia.

Jenny Tung, associate professor of evolutionary anthropology and biology at Duke, has been awarded a 2019 MacArthur Foundation fellowship for her work on the social determinants of health.

In a new study, Charlie Gersbach describes how he successfully harnessed Class 1 CRISPR systems to turn target genes on and off and edit the epigenome in human cells for the first time.

Lingchong You developed a new technology to create biologic drugs using specially engineered bacteria that burst and release useful proteins when they sense that their capsule is becoming too crowded.

Xiling Shen principal investigator in new DARPA project.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in August 2019:

Banned painkiller had a unique effect on the model fish, so they shifted focus to figure out why