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Struggle between sex chromosomes underlies evolutionary paradox
DNA-packaging protamine genes evolve rapidly to stay ahead in battle between ‘selfish’ genetic elements and the rest of the genome
'Microprotein' researcher Maria Toro Moreno is named a Hanna Gray Fellow
Postdoc wins prestigious award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Team of top researchers prepares for endemic COVID-19
$15M Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant shared by 8 scientists at Fred Hutch and UW
Harmit Malik receives Novitski Prize
Evolutionary biologist uses creative strategies to tackle genetic conflict
Old and slow isn’t always the winning combo for critical genes
New work upends paradigm that young, rapidly evolving genes can’t be essential; highlights importance of 'junk' DNA
Centromeric proteins find their own niche
From the Malik Lab, Basic Sciences Division
Harmit Malik elected to National Academy of Sciences
Evolutionary biologist honored for fundamental discoveries of genetic conflict
Dr. Jesse Bloom named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
Biologist uses viruses to study molecular evolution
Fred Hutch’s Katherine Xue among 2018 Weintraub Award recipients
13 graduate students selected for prestigious award in biological sciences
MERS remains primarily a camel virus — for now
Fred Hutch researchers use genetic sequence data to show virus reaches ‘dead end’ in humans
A ‘selfish gene’ that poisons its own host
Discovery of genes that divide two species in a simple fungus sheds light on complex evolutionary principles
New library of HIV mutants could inform vaccine design
Laboratory manipulation of the AIDS-causing virus reveals evolutionary ‘dead-ends’
A big-picture look at the world’s worst Ebola epidemic
International team of scientists show how real-time sequencing and data-sharing can help stop the next outbreak
A Q&A with evolutionary, computational biologist Trevor Bedford
'Trying to be useful instead of trying to be clever': An evolutionary biologist-virologist-immunologist-computer-wonk finds his niche
Good News: Malik and Bloom win ASM awards; pilot project funded by Bezos family aims to create personalized anticancer vaccines
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
'Mother's Curse' mutation — harmful to males but not females — ID'd for the first time in animals
Study in fruit flies identifies a mutation in mitochondria — the energy factories of our cells — that harms males but not females
Why fish school: Study uncovers genetic link to social behavior
Study uncovers genetic link to social behavior in stickleback fish
Dr. Marian Neuhouser takes office as president of the American Society for Nutrition
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
The sixth samurai: Finding a gene that divides one species from another
How six male flies — among more than 300,000 females — led to the discovery of an evolution-driving gene
Q&A: How evolutionary biologists got lucky with a sperm discovery
Drs. Harmit Malik and Mia Levine on a male fruit fly protein necessary for embryo survival