Murphy, a professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, won the WICB Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research, which is open to women seven... Read more
Story by Caitlin Sedwick, Department of Molecular Biology Princeton University researchers have... Read more
Story by Karin Dienst, Office of Communications Four Princeton University faculty members, including Ned Wingreen, the Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences and professor of... Read more
Many mutations in DNA that contribute to disease are not in actual genes but instead lie in the 99% of the genome once considered “junk.” Even though scientists have recently come to understand that these vast stretches of DNA... Read more
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected Eric Wieschaus, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, as a fellow of the AACR Academy “for his Nobel Prize-winning identification of genes responsible... Read more
The first moments of life unfold with incredible precision. Now, using mathematical tools and the help of fruit flies, researchers at Princeton have uncovered new findings about the mechanisms behind this precision. In a new... Read more
T cells are like the special ops forces of the immune system, detecting and killing infected cells. When a new threat is detected, the cells ramp up from just a few sentry cells to a full platoon. But how does the immune system... Read more
We'd like to welcome our Fall 2019 incoming QCB class! Aaron Bourque (University of Florida) Sara Camilli (University of Richmond) Danfeng Chen (Broad Institute) Yuhang Chen (NYU Shanghai) Siena Dumas Ang (University of... Read more