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Like so many students, senior biohealth sciences major Brett Gill’s intended path as a freshman at Oregon State veered off course — for the better.

Biohealth Sciences major Sydney Phu selected for a prestigious bioethics summer internship at the Mayo Clinic.

Biologist suggests an ecological approach to improve human health, comparing a person to an ecosystem in which fighting chronic disease requires bolstering gut microbes.

The blood of schizophrenia patients features genetic material from more types of microorganisms than that of people without the debilitating mental illness.

OSU statisticians were awarded a four-year $770K NIH grant to innovate statistical methods to study the human microbiome and its role in human health.

The College of Science welcomes Maude David and spouse Kenton Hokanson, who joined the Department of Microbiology in January.

Human cells have tremendous power to mechanically change their surroundings, opening the door to new insights including how cancer spreads.

Chemistry graduate student Elizabeth Kaweesa has played a role in the discovery of a bacterium that kills melanoma cells.

Microbiologists advance the fight against drug resistance, crafting a compound that genetically neutralizes a pathogen’s ability to thwart antibiotics.

A type of soil-dwelling bacterium produces molecules that induce death in melanoma cells, according to research by chemist Sandra Loesgen.

Science at Oregon State University has been a trailblazer since OSU's designation as a land-grant college in 1868.

The College of Science celebrated research, teaching and administrative excellence at its 2017 Fall Faculty and Staff Awards.