USC Dornsife News

A new process to assemble DNA, developed by USC Dornsife researchers, could vastly improve production of pharmaceuticals, cancer therapies, biofuels and more.

The molecular dance that allows a unique bacterium to transfer electrons is captured on camera for the first time.

Faculty who arrived during the pandemic study cell function, genetics and symplectic geometry, among other topics. [4 min read]

DNA expert and biology professor, a fixture at USC Dornsife for 50 years, is recalled as a kind and patient teacher with a rigorous and unquenchable intellectual curiosity. [4 min read]

The development of a 3-D crystal structure gives molecular biologist Kaori Noridomi a clear view of how myasthenia gravis behaves.

The Kay laboratory’s 25-year anniversary symposium offers a peek into USC Dornsife Dean Steve Kay’s life as a scientist.

In a new paper, USC Dornsife molecular and computational biologists Norman Arnheim and Peter Calabrese and their team found that the longer a man waits to have children, the greater the chance of having a child with Noonan syndrome.

USC Dornsife professors Frank Alber, Liang Chen and Andrew Smith have been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health to develop computational methods to study biological processes in cells.