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  • Making Sustainable Products Faster with AI and Automation

    Making Sustainable Products Faster with AI and Automation

    Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biological and Systems Engineering (BSE) Division, is working to accelerate and refine the synthetic biology landscape by applying artificial intelligence and the mathematical tools he mastered during his training as a physicist.

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  • Biology Can Make Vaccine Adjuvants More Available

    Biology Can Make Vaccine Adjuvants More Available

    Biosciences researchers and their collaborators have modified yeast to make the vaccine adjuvant QS-21. QS-21 is an important additive to vaccines that stimulates the immune response, making it more effective.

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  • Abby Dernburg Elected Into National Academy of Sciences

    Abby Dernburg Elected Into National Academy of Sciences

    Abby Dernburg, a senior faculty scientist in the Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in meiosis research.

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  • Two Scientists Join Ranks of AAAS Fellows

    Two Scientists Join Ranks of AAAS Fellows

    Two senior scientists in the Biosciences Area, Jian-Hua Mao and Trent Northen, are newly named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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  • Cracking Sugarcane’s Genetic Code

    Cracking Sugarcane’s Genetic Code

    Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane’s genetic code could help researchers develop more resilient and productive crops, with implications for both sugar production and biofuels

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