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Building Global Bridges: The Bilingual Impact of Fire Sponge Research
Enjoy this article about how a sponge with a painful sting expands current cancer research.
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Congratulations to our 2026 Faculty and Staff College Award Recipients!
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Congratulations to Dr. Timothy Jenkins for Receiving the 2025 CELL Distinguished Faculty Award
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CES Crossover: Life Sciences Debuts Internships Between BYU Schools
BYU-Idaho and BYU-Hawaii life science graduates are taking internships in the College of Life Sciences, including in our department! They are expanding both their research opportunities, and their testimonies.
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CELL Honored UG Graduate: How Colson Beus Built His Confidence Through Medicine
“I really don’t see myself doing anything else. The idea of being able to devote my entire career to connecting with and caring for others in need is enticing and exciting.”
-COLSON BEUS
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-COLSON BEUS
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Faith, Persistence, and Belonging: Tanner Blocker's Journey Through Graduate Research
“My research shows how biophysical research here at BYU can lead to discoveries that help us combat disease and stress ... It is through basic research like this that future therapies and medications can be developed to treat neurological diseases.”
-TANNER BLOCKER
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-TANNER BLOCKER
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Seeing the Brain Differently: The Suli Lab’s Approach to Neurodiversity
“It would be very sad if everybody thought the same way. We all think slightly differently, and we bring different viewpoints to life, which makes living more exciting.”
-ARMINDA SULI
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-ARMINDA SULI
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Kenley Kohls and Braden Betteridge’s Procedure for Rapid Sepsis Diagnosis
“I really like this research, because it helps me to understand the value of research and the value of people who work behind closed doors developing all these medicines and protocols that save lives,”
-BRADEN BETTERIDGE
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-BRADEN BETTERIDGE
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Treating addiction with immunotherapy: BYU study links alcohol use and the immune system
“We need as much understanding as we can get of how the brain and body respond to substances of abuse so that we can inform the next generation of treatment options.”
-ANDREW PAYNE
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-ANDREW PAYNE
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Measuring Consciousness: Shedding New Light on Anesthesia in the Melonakos Lab
“Just because something is spiritual doesn’t mean there’s not a physical cause as well... I can maintain my faith, which is the most dear thing to me in my life, while also having a curiosity about how things work.”
-DR. ERIC MELONAKOS
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-DR. ERIC MELONAKOS
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Paytin Curranknebel: BYU student turns heartache into hope through cancer research
“I’ve always wanted to help people heal, but I’ve also come to realize that Christ is our ultimate healer, which continues to inspire my work and perspective,”
-PAYTIN CURRANKNEBEL
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-PAYTIN CURRANKNEBEL
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Meet the cell Student Representatives
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