One of this year's coveted Lasker Awards has gone to Zhijian "James" Chen, a scientist behind a key immune-system discovery.

UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara co-present Dr. Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR Gene Editing and the ...

Wesley Sundquist, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Biochemistry, was awarded the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.

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Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

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Dr. Michelle Duennes, an assistant professor of biology at Saint Vincent College, sees spotted lanternflies overstaying their ...

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Zhijian “James” Chen received this year’s Albert Lasker Award for discovering cGAS, an enzyme which scopes out DNA-based ...

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