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Rising Sparks: Corinne Moss, metabolism

Rising Sparks: Corinne Moss, metabolism

Moss uses mass spectrometry to analyze human biofluids, work that helps scientists extract valuable biomedical details out of complex biological systems.

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In just 17 amino acids, a master regulator of viral genome replication

In just 17 amino acids, a master regulator of viral genome replication

New research out of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for Research in Virology at Morgridge reveals a starring role for a short, 17 amino acid sequence in viral replication. The results will likely ramify across an enormous class of viruses with related replication machinery.

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Morgridge Institute CEO Brad Schwartz announces retirement

Morgridge Institute CEO Brad Schwartz announces retirement

After more than 13 years as CEO of the Morgridge Institute, Brad Schwartz has announced plans to retire. Creating new possibilities for what contemporary science can be, under his tenure Morgridge championed curiosity-driven research, ushered in major new campus partnerships, and deepened our connection to society through mission-driven public engagement.

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Searching for relevance in a sea of 39 million scientific papers

Searching for relevance in a sea of 39 million scientific papers

A bioinformatics team at Morgridge created a new hybrid machine learning tool that reduces two stubborn problems when mining insights from big data: false positives and hallucinations.

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