DNA Segregation
The Schumacher Lab describes the machinery and assembly mechanism of the archaeal Sulfolobus pNOB8 segregation system.
Graduate Student awarded a 2015 NSF Fellowship
Benjamin Fenton awarded a 2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Gene Fuels Age-Related Obesity and Diabetes
Dr. Vann Bennett and team have shown that two different mutations in a gene called ankyrin-B cause cells to suck up glucose faster than normal, fattening them up and eventually triggering the type of diabetes linked to obesity.
Beating Back Multidrug Resistant Bacteria
Research collaboration explores the efficacy of beating back multidrug-resistant bacteria by using chemical compounds known as LpxC inhibitors.
Structures Reveal Basis of Recurring Urinary Tract Infections
A collaboration including the Schumacher and Brennan Labs show that a protein called HipA acts as a kind of molecular Sandman, putting bacterial cells to sleep so they can live another day.
Welcome Assistant Professor, Dr. Yang
On 1 June 2015, the Department of Biochemistry welcomed its newest Assistant Professor, Dr. Haung-he Yang. Dr. Yang is also a member of the Ion Channel Research Unit.
Professor Hashim M. Al-Hashimi was Named a James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry
Nine members of the School of Medicine faculty were named to endowed professorships by Duke University on April 30, 2015.
'Quantum Jitters' Could Form Basis of Evolution, Cancer
The molecular machines that copy DNA in a living cell are amazingly fast and accurate at pairing up the correct bases—G with C and A with T—into each new double helix.
Robert Lefkowitz Shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Robert J. Lefkowitz MD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who has spent his entire 39-year research career at the Duke University Medical Center, is sharing the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Brian K. Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine, who was a post-doctoral fellow in Lefkowitz's lab in the 1980s.