Repost from the College of Science September 22, 2025 Above: The pop art-inspired illustration highlights a new light-up RNA aptamer called Golden Broccoli that was developed through structure-based design. Golden Broccoli: U biochemists create the world’s first single-dyed ratiometric biosensor for glycine imaging. “Glycine has many important roles. It’s an important neurotransmitter that regulates things […]
Read MoreBecause of its potent greenhouse properties, methane gas is a significant contributor to climate change. It also feeds microbes known as methanotrophs that convert the gas into carbon dioxide and biomass, but scientists have been unsure how these microbes get all the nutrients they need to accomplish this task. Now, a University of Utah chemistry lab has […]
Read MoreNew research by Bischak Lab shows how wafer-thin perovskites’ optical properties shift with temperature changes. In today’s energy-intensive environment, designing new devices for more efficient and renewable energy sources is at the forefront of scientific research. A particularly interesting approach utilizes Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites—a type of layered material made from alternating sheets of inorganic and organic components. […]
Read MoreCHPC is the University of Utah’s premier computing institute and resource hub. It was founded on the principle of providing high-performance, large-scale, and cost-effective computing power for researchers across Utah. Over the years, it has grown into a vital infrastructure supporting interdisciplinary research across physics, engineering, chemistry, the humanities and other academic fields. Services that CHPC […]
Read MoreThe work of recent chemistry graduate Uziel Gonzalez (BS ‘24) was featured in the September 24 publication of C & E News feature “Chemistry in Pictures.” Tom Richmond said for the C & E News “While purifying tert-butylmalononitrile, a useful starting material for the synthesis of organic electronic materials, University of Utah chemistry undergraduate Uziel Gonzalez discovered […]
Read MoreThe research efforts of Mina Done, with Cindy Burrows and Max Austin, with Andrew Roberts, the U Chemistry’s Beckman Scholars are highlighted in highlighted in the 2023 Innovation Report from the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute, David Eccles School of Business. Special tanks to Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Photo: Max Austin, curtesy of the Lassonde Entrepreneur […]
Read MoreTest Kit Developed by Alumnus Kirk Ririe’s Company BioFire Defense By KRISTEN MOULTON|Reprinted from The Salt Lake Tribune BioFire Defense’s Ebola test kits, used with its FilmArray machine, has been OK’d by the FDA to test patients for the Ebola Zaire virus. BioFire Defense of Salt Lake City says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]
Read MoreProfessor Valérie Pierre, who joined the University of Utah Department of Chemistry this past summer, is the Director of the NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry. The NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry (CASC) is supported by the Centers for Chemical Innovation (CCI) Program of the Division of Chemistry. The ability of custom-designed molecules to 1) […]
Read MoreOn September 5, 2024, Professor Luisa Whittaker-Brooks, University of Utah Department of Chemistry discussed nanomaterials at KPCW Cool Science Radio. Listen here Professor’s Luisa Whittaker-Brooks interview: The Whittaker Group aims to address important challenges related to the understanding of the relationships among the composition, structure, electronic structure, and properties of inorganic and organic nanomaterials, as […]
Read MoreIn search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function @TheU published a research story titled “In search of new microscopy tools to observe how cells function, U chemists discover how key contrast agent works, paving the way to create markers needed for correlative microscopy” on September 4, 2024. The article by Brian […]
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