News: Research

A COVID-19 vaccine in human trials in Vietnam, Thailand and Brazil, holds promise for affordable vaccine manufacturing in countries currently dependent on imported vaccines.

Brianna Lacy and Yifan Zhou have received a fellowship that will give them the support to conduct research on exoplanets.

Harsh parenting practices, not genetics, are linked to higher levels of behavior problems in children, according to a new study.

Gene editing inside living cells could become more effective and accurate after researchers unveiled how inner workings can help or hinder the process.

The technology can be used to train computers to increase the resolution of low-quality cellular and tissue images acquired on point-scanning systems, such as MRI

Here’s how eukaryotes might have evolved from simpler life forms

​Carlos Baiz, Caroline Morley, Andrew Potter and Urbain Weyemi are among the 128 scholars from across the country selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive the 2021 Sloan...

Undergraduates at the UT Austin Inventors Program are exploring how mealworms, and the microbes in their guts, can naturally degrade household plastics.

A new model could help public health officials in Central Texas better manage what amounts to a much larger vaccination campaign than was carried out...

Learn about Jessica O'Connell's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Marine Science and what her research focuses on.