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Byline: Laura DeMassa '21

Gloved hand holding a test tube in a lab
Provided A centrifugal concentrator tube containing purified GluER T36A enzyme. Its yellow color comes from the presence of the flavin cofactor within the enzyme, essential for its function.
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Molecular Engines for Drug Synthesis

Cornell Research

Doctoral student Sophie Bender modifies enzymes—complex, machine-like biomolecules—to create precision tools for difficult chemical reactions.

Ezinwa Osuoha
Ezinwa Ozuoha
Undergraduate research

A Corallary to War

Cornell Research

Did racism and a fractured political landscape make the United States more vulnerable to COVID-19? Undergraduate researcher and McNair Scholar Ezinwa Osuoha '22 compares disease outbreaks in different nations.