Chemists create new route to PHAs: naturally degradable bioplastics
They offer a cost-effective synthetic pathway for conventional and new PHAs with enhanced properties.
Author Archives: Anne Manning
Two CSU chemistry professors to help celebrate 150 years of the Periodic Table
Professors Eugene Chen and Amy Prieto will join a national panel in Washington, D.C. this week discussing chemistry breakthroughs enabled by scientific understanding of the periodic table.
‘I knew that was going to happen:’ Déjà vu and the ‘postdictive’ bias
CSU memory researchers document a “postdictive” bias in deja vu experiencers in the lab, and offer a plausible explanation for why it happens.
Whether direct or indirect, parental alienation harms families
New research shows that mothers and fathers use slightly different tactics when engaging in these destructive behaviors.
By storing ‘sketches’ of data, computer scientists seek to transform urban systems
A research team is developing a system for streamlining and managing vast datasets that could advance research in urban sustainability.
Experiments illuminate key component of plants’ immune systems
The discovery of how plant resistance proteins trigger localized cell death could lead to new strategies for engineering disease resistance in crops.
Summertime Standouts: Marley Webber
Webber, a biology major with a concentration in human anatomy and physiology, has spent the summer as an intern in the Biology/Zoology student advising office.
It’s not an antibody, it’s a frankenbody: A new tool for live-cell imaging
Biochemistry researchers have made an antibody-based probe with a powerful distinction: Their genetically encoded probe works in living cells.
Math graduate students take Math Circles outreach on the road
The popular summer camp expanded to eastern Colorado this year, in an effort to reach more students.
Stem cells reprogrammed into neurons could reveal drugs harmful to pregnancy
Researchers have designed a new experimental system that can rapidly assess the pathogenic effects of a drug on developing neurons.