Amy Palmer

The right zinc levels are key to human health, researchers find

July 24, 2023

Using innovative fluorescent sensors and computational modeling, CU Boulder biochemistry researcher Amy Palmer tracked naturally cycling cells to better understand an essential micronutrient. Read more ...

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Alex Whiteley identifies remnants of ancient virus that may fuel ALS in people

June 6, 2023

CU Boulder researchers have identified a surprising new player in the disease—an ancient, virus-like protein best known, paradoxically, for its essential role in enabling placental development. The findings were recently published in the journal eLife .

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CU Biochem Professor Dylan Taatjes helps discover novel way to inhibit key cancer driver, other mutated genes

April 19, 2022

Cartoon representation of the seminal smTIRFM experiment set up by Gordon et al.

Falke lab article selected by Biophysical Journal editors as "New and Notable"

Dec. 21, 2021

The Falke lab's recent publication "Single Molecule Studies Reveal Regulatory Interactions between Master Kinases PDK1, AKT1 and PKC" was selected by the Biophysical Journal editors as "New and Notable".

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How a tangled protein kills brain cells, promotes Alzheimer's

April 23, 2021

Look deep inside the brain of someone with Alzheimer’s disease, most forms of dementia or the concussion-related syndrome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and you’ll find a common suspected culprit: stringy, hairball-like tangles of a protein called tau.

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Popular breast cancer drugs don’t work the way we thought they did

Feb. 4, 2021

Some of the most commonly used drugs for treating hereditary breast and ovarian cancers may not work the way we thought they did, according to new CU Boulder research .

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Modern microbes provide window into ancient ocean

Jan. 6, 2021

Scientists at CU Boulder have discovered that a type of single-celled organism living in modern-day oceans may have a lot in common with life forms that existed billions of years ago—and that fundamentally transformed Earth.

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New insights on a common protein could lead to novel cancer treatments

Nov. 4, 2020

A new CU Boulder-led study sheds light on a protein key to controlling how cells grow, proliferate and function and long implicated in tumor development.

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How does a stem cell know what to become? Study shows RNA plays key role

July 7, 2020

In a study published July 6 CU Boulder researchers come one step closer to answering that fundamental question, concluding that the molecular messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid) plays an indispensable role in cell differentiation, serving as a bridge between our genes and the so-called “epigenetic” machinery that turns them on and off.

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Small Molecule Regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 Using RNA Aptamers

June 24, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder, led by Biochemistry Professor Robert Batey , have developed compositions and methods for temporal regulation of single guide RNAs (sgRNAs) that comprise a small molecule-binding aptamer in the sgRNA, which enables small-molecule-dependent gene editing in bacteria. They also developed a method for selecting sgRNAs that are...

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