On Tuesday, Nobel laureate Thomas Cech spoke at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign about his groundbreaking research on ribonucleic acid, also known as RNA. Cech’s talk covered the ...

Professor Cech's name is pronounced like "check." Cech was born to parents of Czech origin (his grandfather was Czech, his other grandparents were first-generation Americans) in Chicago, he grew up in ...

Thomas Cech is well recognized by the scientific community and as Colorado’s first Nobel Prize Laureate. A distinguished professor of chemistry and the director of CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute, ...

Discoveries that could lead to life-saving antiviral drugs and exotic new materials, and that have already produced the world`s most accurate clock, have won the Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics ...

Healthy cells have a built-in self-destruct mechanism: Strands of DNA called "telomeres" act as protective caps on the ends of your chromosomes. Each time a cell replicates, telomeres get a little ...

One of Penn's top scientists received the Engineering School's most prestigious award last week. Thomas Cech, president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in ...

The Nobel Prize-winning president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is stepping down to return to the research laboratory by spring of next year. Thomas Cech, who began his term at HHMI in ...

Acclaimed University of Colorado Nobel laureate Thomas Cech has added another distinction to his resume with his appointment to the first-ever National Commission on Forensic Science. Cech, a CU ...

The Nobel Prize-winning president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is stepping down to return to the research laboratory by spring of next year. Thomas Cech, who began his term at HHMI in ...

STORM Therapeutics has appointed Nobel Prize Winner Professor Thomas Cech as a Scientific Advisor. Thomas is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder and ...

IT'S TIME TO GO home. After more than eight years as president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), chemistry Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech announced earlier this month that he will step ...