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Photo of Marie-Claire Harrison, who is wearing a dark-colored sweater.

Harrison named Brighter Ventures Student Award recipient

May. 25, 2023—By Lorena Infante Lara Marie-Claire Harrison, a graduate student in the Department of Biological Sciences, has been named the 2023 recipient of the Brighter Ventures Student Award. The Brighter Ventures Student Award supports Ph.D. students interested in the application of artificial intelligence in the biomedical research field. This award was established by Laurent Audoly, a graduate of the...

3D rendering of an RNA polymerase transcribing DNA. The polymerase is orange and looks vaguely like a hand holding a purple, double-stranded DNA within it. Tiny red molecules are floating about, and they represent RNA nucleotides that are coming together and forming a single-stranded RNA that's coming out of the polymerase.

What’s new in science?

Oct. 29, 2021—Back to Vestigo Issue 3 Error-prone or adaptive? The role of topoisomerases during DNA replication and transcription conflicts By Alexandria Oviatt Replication—copying a cell’s DNA—and transcription—making RNA from DNA—are not separated spatially or temporally in a cell and can happen simultaneously. That means that the protein complexes (also called “machineries”) responsible for replication and those...

Group photo of (left to right) Emily Hodges, Carlos F. Lopez, Jonathan Irish, Vito Quaranta, Ken Lau, and Gregor Neuert.

The next frontier: Systems biology, big data, and advanced analytics

Oct. 26, 2021—Back to Vestigo Issue 3 By Aaron Conley Traditionally, biological research was done in a wet laboratory and involved a series of individual experiments that each revealed a fragment of a larger picture. However, scientists are now at a crossroad. Technology has advanced to allow the collection of data of previously unimaginable size and complexity....