The MSU Foundation has awarded three Strategic Partnership Grants with connections to the College of Natural Science:
The project Community-based Cooperative for Studies Across GEnerations (CoSAGE), led by Brian Schutte, associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics, explores the complex factors that contribute to disease, specifically Alzheimer’s disease. The goal of the project is to develop [...]
MSU scientists are unlocking the secrets of the chloroplast by taking a new approach to genetics in the Chloroplast 2010 Initiative. This new method examines the relationships between thousands of different genes and almost 100 different measurable physical characteristics, called phenotypes, in the chloroplast. The method has already led to new discoveries about gene function [...]
Biochemistry Professors Robert Last and Dean DellaPenna are featured in the AAAS special issue on plant genomics published on April 25. See the Special Online Edition on plant genomics. View the multimedia feature and videos.
