USC Dornsife News

A diversity supplement grant from the National Institutes of Health and a Gilliam Fellowship — the first to be awarded to USC Dornsife — will advance doctoral student scholarship.

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.