Mysterious Outbreak of Bone-Eating TB Resembled an Ancestral Form
Craig Lowe among the team investigating the driving force behind a strange NC outbreak of tuberculosis
Duke Center for Combinatorial Gene Regulation hosts annual CEGS meeting
The Duke Center for Combinatorial Gene Regulation (CCGR), an NHGRI Center of Excellence in Genome Sciences (CEGS), hosted the annual CEGS meeting October 18-20.
Lawrence David Among Faculty Awarded Science Diversity Leadership Grants
Lawrence David, PhD, associate professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, was among 25 recipients awarded 2022 Science Diversity Leadership Awards from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He will receive a total of $1.15 million over five years.
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like an Algorithm
Bruce Donald and colleagues developed RESISTOR, an algorithm that uses protein structure-based computational design to predict how mutations in an enzyme will affect a drug’s efficacy. This technology could provide drug designers with insights to design better, more durable, proactive drugs.
How Duke researchers are guiding the University's COVID-19 policies
Duke researchers are using genome sequencing to analyze the genetic makeup of SARS-Cov-2 for specific mutations and variants. The relevant findings have guided Duke’s administration as they develop the University's COVID-19 policies.
With Amy Goldberg, Mathematics Meets Genetics to Decode Our Evolutionary Past
Amy Goldberg’s passion for human evolution probably started with the genetic anthropology books her father poured over during his Ph.D. studies.
An AI Message Decoder Based on Bacterial Growth Patterns
New encryption method uses simulated bacterial growth based on specific initial conditions to form patterns corresponding to letters
Microbial Job Stability
How functions in microbial communities remain constant despite varying compositions
Microbial communities, whether those found in the human gut, marine waters, seaweed, or wild bromeliads, can vary drastically, both in their species numbers and in composition. But despite the variations, certain functions in these microbial communities stay stable, and now researchers at Duke are understanding why.
Oxford Nanopore Technology GridION: Putting More Bases in Their Places
The GridION provides cost-effective, ultra-long sequencing reads of hundreds of kilobases to help answer research questions that short read sequencers cannot.