MSU broke ground on two new infrastructure projects that are critical to the future of Michigan food production and agriculture. Construction began on an updated, state-of-the-art Dairy Cattle Teaching and Research Center, as well as substantial renovations and additions to the Plant Science Greenhouses. The new and renovated spaces will expand research capacity for MSU …
East Lansing, MI – Björn Hamberger, an associate professor at Michigan State University (MSU) in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, tells the story of a pre-homo sapiens man buried in a cave in Iraq surrounded by many flowering plants. “We know some of these plants today as powerful antimalarials,” says Hamberger. Humans knew …
The latest issue of Science magazine has a long-format research article on the bacterial populations in an experiment started in 1988 by EEB core faculty member Richard Lenski. With a team of researchers from Spain, France, and Harvard, Lenski and colleagues used high-throughput genomic methods to analyze the fitness effects of hundreds of thousands of …
The next time you walk through the woods in the dead of winter, take a moment to see if you can spot one of nature’s most persistent and heartiest survivors. No, not the patch of brown grasses peeking through a snowbank, or the acres of trees with their bare boughs and branches, waiting for spring. …
Björn Hamberger, Xuefei Huang and Alex Pollock of the College of Natural Science claimed three of the MSU Innovation Center’s top six annual awards presented at the 2024 Innovation Celebration in April. Björn Hamberger — 2024 Innovation of the Year Award Hamberger, the James K. Billman, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, claimed the 2024 Innovation of …
Thousands of types of bacteria live in the human gut. They help digest the food we eat and absorb nutrients, but these bacteria don’t just do this to be kind to humans, there is a benefit for them too. Elizabeth Heath-Heckman, an assistant professor in the College of Natural Science, has received a five-year National …
Michigan State University’s Research Technology Support Facility, or RTSF, consists of five analytical cores that offer researchers the tools they need to perform world-changing life science, from cryo-electron microscopy to advanced genome editing. Recently, the Mass Spectrometry and Metabolomics Core located in the College of Natural Science’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, or BMB, …
Researchers at Michigan State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science have developed a model that connects microscopic biology to macroscopic ecology, which could deepen our understanding of nature’s laws and create new opportunities in ecosystem management. Reporting in the journal Science on Feb. 15, the team showed how microscopic relationships in plankton — such …
“You’d be surprised to learn how few technologies that have been researched in labs for years actually make it to market,” says Frank Urban, director of venture creation – life sciences for Spartan Innovations. “But without getting to the market, that research doesn’t play out into changing people’s lives. “Dr. Abramovitch’s passion is not only …
Particle physics is kind of like an eclipse or a meteor shower. They aren’t things we tend to think about until they’re unfolding in front of our eyes. When they are, though, they captivate our imaginations. Over the last 20 years, particle physics has generated some of science’s most memorable headlines, including the discovery of …
