Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan and colleagues Jiaming Zhuang and PhD student Kingshuk Dutta, Chemistry, have developed a new method of delivering intact proteins inside cells, which could be used for treating human diseases. The research was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Read more

David Gross, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, is co-author of a new study in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that looked at best approaches to collaborative learning. The study suggests that students can be successful in a team-based course even when the instructor does not design the team, a finding that runs counter to other literature on collaborative learning. Read more

Elizabeth Vierling, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and colleagues in India and China report finding a crucial mechanism that plants need to recover from heat stress—an important discovery as climate change is resulting in increased damage to crops. The findings were reported in The Plant Cell. Read more

Peter H. Reinhart, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and director of the UMass Institute for Applied Life Sciences, was interviewed by Business West about the ways IALS is connecting academic researchers with high-tech industries, providing advanced manufacturing businesses with tools and researchers that can promote and expand their businesses. Read more