AUSTIN, Texas, July 17 -- The University of Texas at Austin issued the following news release:

Three recent College of Natural Sciences graduates are taking bragging rights with them to medical school and the workforce, having just published in one of the world's most highly cited scientific journals.

Recent University of Texas at Austin undergraduate researchers Ethan Yu (B.S. Biochemistry '24), Allen Xue (B.S. Biology '24) and Aadhunik Sundar (B.S. Biology and B.A. Plan II '26) played key roles on a team whose paper published earlier this month in the journal Nature about a mysterious protein at the heart of a longstanding relationship between a microbe and its insect host.

Nancy Moran, the Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Chair of integ...