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In a new paper published in eLife, my colleagues in the Denic Lab and I investigated how budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) breaks down damaged peroxisome organelles through a…
MCB faculty Vlad Denic has been chosen to receive funding for a joint project with HMS professor Wade Harper from a strategic research alliance between the pharmaceutical company…
Gametes are the vessels of gene immortality. To escape the dying soma, these cells rely on a specialized form of the cell cycle in which a single round…
In the late 1970’s, the KGB inducted ricin into the “cloak and dagger” hall-of-fame by turning a more or less innocuous umbrella tip into their assassin’s weapon of…
Sometimes how you get where you’re going is as important as what you do when you get there. This is true of the proteins in our cells, whose…
The phrase “finding a needle in a haystack” refers to the difficulty of locating a specific target among a large number of very similar objects. Living cells face…
(l to r) David Pincus, Eric Solís, Vlad Denic No matter where you fall on the spectrum of libertarianism this election year, you can hopefully appreciate that the…
The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recently selected Vlad Denic, a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, as the recipient of this year’s Early…
(l to r) Vlad Denic, Roarke Kamber, and Chris Shoemaker The modern urbanite doesn’t bother with the bus – she taps her phone and meets a personal driver…
(l to r) Vlad Denic, Fei Wang, Charlene Chan, and Nicholas Weir Membrane protein insertion is a fundamental process in cell biology. Consider a membrane protein with an…
