News: Molecular Biosciences

Alone, this target might not be strong enough to directly block infection, but might be used to jump-start or boost an immune response.

Researchers at UT Austin are involved in some of the most exciting areas of science and driving groundbreaking discoveries and technologies that impact our world.

Just as humans cannot breathe underwater, the tiny pores of plants can't exchange air underwater.

Jason McLellan receives the NAS Award in Molecular Biology and the Norman Hackerman Award from the Welch Foundation.

It might enable inexpensive, highly sensitive at-home diagnostic tests for COVID-19, influenza, Ebola and more.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found a new contributor to antibiotic resistance: bacterial swarms that create ideal breeding grounds to evolve...

New findings could lead to a vaccine for one more respiratory virus.

A large family of reverse transcriptases (RTs) could inspire new drugs to improve cancer treatments

The Long-Term Evolution Experiment, one of the most famous in all of science, is now running on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

John Wallingford has taught developmental biology to students at two of the country's most highly prestigious and competitive institutions, and now he and Rudi Bohm...