UT Austin a Key Player in Science’s Hottest Research Areas for 2023
Researchers at UT Austin are involved in some of the most exciting areas of science and driving groundbreaking discoveries and technologies that impact our world.
McLellan Honored for Contributions to COVID-19 Vaccines
Jason McLellan, UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, has received the 2021 Shirley Bird Perry Longhorn Citizenship Award
Coronavirus Mutation May Have Made It More Contagious
The virus that causes COVID-19 is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious.
Ask the COVID-19 Experts
An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.
Some Bacteria Sacrifice Themselves to Protect their Brethren from Antibiotics
Discovery may aid the fight against antibiotic resistance.
Discovery about Hep C Drug Offers Insights for Coronavirus Treatments
Finding offers important clues to developing drugs to stop other RNA viruses, such as SARS-COV-2.
How Chromosomes Organize and Genes Interact Needs Rethinking, Study Finds
Bacterial DNA much more twisted than originally thought.
Fighting Hepatitis C Virus, Using Clues from What Killed Bevo XIV
And other adventures in animal viruses teaching us about human disease
Promise of New Antibiotics Lies with Shackling Tiny Toxic Tetherballs to Bacteria
Bryan Davies of The University of Texas at Austin and a team have developed a system to identify new options for fighting bacteria.
