2024

Dear Origins Community, We are thrilled to share that Origins Faculty member, Gary Ruvkun, receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of microRNA. Gary shares this award with Victor Ambros (UMass Medical) for elucidating a...

" Cracking Chirality," a twelve-minute film from Chemistry Shorts™, explores how the essential molecules of life, like DNA, RNA, and proteins, acquired their homochiral structures and how magnetic rocks at the bottom of a prebiotic lake may have set the...

Origins Graduate Consortium member, Furkan Ozturk, has been awarded the 2024 Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize. The Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Prize is awarded to recognize the most outstanding experimental and theoretical graduate students in the...