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The ultrasensitive high-resolution mass spectrometer in the Nemes lab. Initial funding to build the instrument was provided by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

UMD Chemist Pioneers Tool for Eavesdropping on Neurons

Research Stories- 14 Feb 22

community of microbes

Rethinking the Wild World of Species Diversity in Microbes

Research Stories- 04 Jan 22

Scott Juntti

UMD Biology’s Scott Juntti Receives $1.9M Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award

Press Releases, Feature Stories- 12 Oct 21

The deer mouse sperm above have wide heads which are associated with sperm aggregation and swimming as a group.

Wide Heads Help Sperm Swim Together

Research Stories- 21 Sep 21

Colenso Speer

UMD Biologist Awarded $1.5 Million to Develop Brain Mapping Techniques

Press Releases, Feature Stories- 06 Oct 20

Cave fish

Gene Found that Causes Eyes to Wither in Cavefish

Press Releases, Research Stories- 01 Jun 20

Visual Deprivation Lowers Threshold for Enzymatic Pathway that Rejuvenates Synaptic Plasticity in the Brain

Research Stories- 07 Jan 20

From Evading Online Censorship to Galaxy Transformations: Read Our Top Stories of 2019

Research Stories, Awards- 19 Dec 19

A Week in the Dark Rewires Brain Cell Networks and Changes Hearing in Mice

Research Stories- 03 Dec 19

A surgeon using augmented reality to practice surgery on a mannequin

Driving Research Advances

Research Stories- 29 Apr 19

3D illustration of a terrapin hauling itself up onto the top of a cliff overlooking tropical waters

Fearless Science: A Half-Century of Bold Research

Research Stories- 26 Apr 19

UMD Files Patents on Compounds to Treat and Prevent Gonorrhea

Research Stories- 07 Jan 19

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