News: Molecular Biosciences

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

For the first time, scientists identified a critical mechanism that remdesivir uses against SARS-CoV-2 and unearthed information that drug companies can use to develop new...

See the new faces at the College of Natural Sciences.

The world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society has announced that Jason McLellan, a University of Texas at Austin associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biosciences...

Several College of Natural Sciences faculty members have been newly appointed to special professorships and endowed chairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.

Scientists have identified a driver of drug resistance that can make a life or death difference for patients with some cancers.

New study finds how cells use important nutrient.

A new tool helps scientists choose the best available gene-editing option for a given job.

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.