Collaboration between the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore, finds two genes involved in invasive, spreading infection underneath skin.

Eight were promoted to the rank of professor and six to associate professor with tenure.

Promotions included 12 instructional faculty members and 54 research faculty members.

Study shows plant version of human glutamate receptor helps moss sperm find eggs, controls spore development.

Over 2,000 students were named to the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences Dean's List for Spring 2017.

Methylene blue improved physical, biochemical and genetic aging markers in experiments with human skin cells and simulated skin tissues.

UMD-developed data analysis package shows pollen tube growth & chemical signaling move to the same beat.

Cell Biology & Molecular Genetics’ Caren Chang discusses existing and emerging plant model systems.

Researchers determine that a protein required for sperm-egg fusion is identical to a protein viruses use to invade host cells; discovery could help fight parasitic diseases like malaria.

New grant in virology and renewal of host-pathogen interactions grant add to programs in comparative and evolutionary biology of hearing, and cell and molecular biology.