Biochemistry and molecular biology Archives

‘Science can be creative’

In the lab, Marina Sako ’26 investigates DNA ‘breakage’ Marina Sako ’26 recalls wondering as a child how broken bones “know” to put themselves back together. This early fascination gave her a thirst to know how the human body operates on a molecular level, and eventually led her to study biochemistry and molecular biology. Sako…

‘Welcome to Clark. Let’s do some science’

Professor Don Spratt introduces local high school students to experiments in biochemistry

It’s EPIC: Clark opens new greenhouse to help U.S. agriculture, environment

Space to enable research on food security, conservation, climate change-related efforts

Tasty teaching

Ice cream and pickles make science approachable in Kitchen Chemistry

‘I couldn’t do this research without the new lab’

Ribbon cut on $750K grant-funded life sciences facility

Fruit flies and fungus, molecules and mutations

Summer STEM Workshop brings science alive

Shared science and shared experience

Latines in STEM club hopes to build community and inspire

Innovation in Action speaker will discuss life sciences opportunities, education in Massachusetts

Clark University’s Innovation in Action Speaker Series will welcome Kenneth Turner, president and CEO of Mass Life Sciences, on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at noon in the Grace Conference Room on the first floor of the Higgins University Center. Turner will discuss the prevalence of life sciences education, careers, and opportunities in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts…

Move-In Day 2023 Photo Gallery

Welcome Clarkies!

BCMB student earns top honor at Protein Society event

Emma Kane, a doctoral candidate in the biochemistry and molecular biology program, won the poster contest at the Protein Society 36th Annual Symposium recently held in San Francisco. Kane, who works in Professor Donald Spratt’s lab, presented the collaboration between Aaron Muth’s lab at St. John’s Universityand Spratt’s lab in which they are optimizing…