New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

The two main approaches for discovering disease genes reveal distinct aspects of biology, a new study shows. While both ...

For the first time, scientists have calculated a detailed “energetic budget” for Hawaiʻi’s short-finned pilot whales, ...

The Biology Department values studying abroad as a complement to a liberal arts education and a compelling option for fulfilling the COLL 300 requirement. Students who choose to study abroad gain ...

Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune ...

As a biology major, you will gain the knowledge, skills, and critical thinking needed for a successful career in modern biology and related fields. The B.S. in Biological Sciences offers several ...

Human biology is the study of all aspects of the human organism including evolution, genetics, ecology, anatomy and physiology, development, anthropology, and nutrition, among others. A deep ...

The majority of high-school biology teachers don't take a solid stance on evolution with their students, mostly to avoid conflicts, and fewer than 30 percent of teachers take an adamant ...

With every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the climate crisis deepens — as does the threat it poses to life on Earth. But that increasing urgency isn’t reflected in many of the ...

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