Scientists at the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have found that a gene previously linked to poor outcomes when expressed at high levels in breast tumor cells can also ac...

Bassler has been named the 2026 recipient of the society's Copley Medal, its oldest and most prestigious prize.

Princeton University is collaborating on a new five-year initiative funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The award of up to $27.7M will support work to develop affordab...

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Hearty congratulations to the Class of 2026 MolBio graduates and award recipients honored on Class Day, Monday, May 25, 2026! Department Chair Elizabeth Gavis charged the record-setting 86 graduates, ...

Surprisingly little is known about how the immune system responds to pregnancy and lactation, and why and how these changes take place. This research details extraordinary changes that take place in m...

Lim lab investigates: Helminth worm-infected mice give birth to pups who have elevated anti-viral defenses in their lungs, leaving them more resistant to infection with respiratory viruses such as inf...

The New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science (NJ ACTS) collaborated with the Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship (ProCES) and community partners to design and fund four differe...

Botstein, Princeton’s Anthony B. Evnin ‘62 Professor of Genomics, Emeritus, and an emeritus professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, died on Feb. 27.

“The regulation of condensate assembly and disassembly is a major outstanding question in the field, and this paper is a beautiful elucidation of how that works for the pyrenoid,” says Clifford Brangw...

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BioSoft, Tel Aviv University, congratulates the 2026 Laureates of the Tel Aviv University International Prize in Biophysics. The prize recognizes outstanding scientists whose work has significantly a...

The award is the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate. The students were recognized at Alumni Day on campus Saturday, Feb. 21.

Depending on social circumstances and genetics, male African striped mice either dote on pups or attack them.

Graduate student Lifei Jiang, is one of 12 recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, announced today by the Fred Hutch Cancer Center, honoring the exceptional achievements of gradu...

On Friday, January 30, the MolBio Postdoc Committee hosted a special colloquium, "Welcoming New MolBio Postdocs." Of the so far 23 new postdocs for 2025, 11 attended the event introducing themselves a...

A team of cancer biologists led by Princeton’s Yibin Kang has resolved a confounding paradox about retinoids and cancer cells and found a potential new avenue for thwarting many cancers, including pan...

The John Scott Award, established in the early 1800s in Philadelphia, is given to "the most deserving" men and women whose inventions have contributed in some outstanding way to the "comfort, welfare ...

The 41st annual MolBio Retreat, a two-day science cornucopia on Friday and Saturday, October 3-4, 2025, convened again in Frick Chemistry Laboratory's Taylor Auditorium and Atrium. Over 300 attendees,...

Mina is a molecular biology major and plans to become an oncologist. For his senior thesis, he is using machine learning to analyze large global clinical datasets to explore the role of the gut microb...

"We discovered a simple trick to make the CRISPR-Cas13 crRNA complex better at recognizing single nucleotide changes, and therefore better at detecting mutations”

Three teams of Princeton researchers were awarded NJ ACTS pilot grants in 2025. The competitive grants support biomedical researchers seeking to transform their discoveries into clinical applications

The Department of Molecular Biology was extraordinarily well-represented at the October 9-11, 2025 Many Minds Many Stripes conference celebrating Princeton graduate alumni, whether measured by number ...

“When macrophages disappear, skin blood vessels age. Loss of skin macrophages with age blocks blood vessel flow and clot repair, revealing a new cellular trigger of tissue aging.”

MD/PhD student Callan O’Shea, a member of the Princeton University Department of Molecular Biology (MOL), is the newest recipient of the New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Translational Science Awar...

Bassler's pioneering research on the molecular mechanisms used by bacteria for intercellular communication has shown life-saving potential. University Professor is Princeton’s highest honor for facult...

Groundbreaking research by Princeton scientists Luis Linares-Otoya, Mohamed Donia, Jaden Shirkey, Fred Hughson,  and colleagues has discovered a new chemical language used by bacteria to communicate w...

“Do not compare yourselves to others. It is so easy to compare yourself to everyone around you, especially in the current technological age. But everyone's project is different, everyone's timeline is...

Under the leadership of Gary Laevsky, Ph.D., Director of MolBio's Confocal Facility, Princeton celebrates its 10th anniversary as a Nikon Center of Excellence (CoE). Nikon Centers of Excellence are st...

“There is an expectation that if you’re smart it will be easy. Part of my goal in teaching is to take away that assumption.” Taga’s approach in class and in her lab is the development of a growth mind...

In 2022, HHMI launched the Freeman Hrabowski Scholars program to support outstanding basic researchers, including physician-scientists, who have strong potential to become leaders in their fields. Sch...

The career path of Ali Nouri *06 defies categorization but reveals a consistent through line: using scientific thinking to serve the public good. In this profile by Molecular Biology graduate student ...

I am currently on a listening tour, meeting one-on-one with every faculty member in the Department to hear what people are thinking and if they have ideas for where they think the department should be...