When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...

The laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as ...

1 The Arts and Humanities (AH) and Social Sciences (SS) perspectives are subsets of the Breadth of Knowledge (BOK) requirements in the Core Curriculum. No more than two BOK courses can be taken with ...

EPFL researchers have developed a light-based method that can produce proteins that switch states, respond to signals, and even compute, using light and the cell cycle.

As the world continues to explore the potential of GPT-4o beating Claude 3.5 Sonnet, EvolutionaryScale, an AI research lab founded by former Meta engineers, who ran the company’s now-disbanded protein ...

For a mouse, survival often boils down to one urgent question: Flee or freeze? But the best strategy to avoid being snatched and eaten depends on which mouse you are asking. According to a new study ...

PhD candidate follows passion to understand evolutionary biology of fishes Melendez Vazquez participating in the necropsy of an oarfish (Regalecus russelii) that washed ashore at La Jolla Cove.

ELEC copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are perhaps the largest non-professional ...

A Spring 2022 study following two VR biology labs at Arizona State University showed elevated student performance and engagement in several areas, compared to results in labs without the VR component.

A new platform combines rational protein design with continuous evolution to discover functional molecules more efficiently. In medicine and biotechnology, the ability to evolve proteins with new or ...

Our rapidly changing world requires experts trained in global biodiversity and its conservation. The EEOB Option emphasizes organismal diversity, ecology, and evolution in courses with outdoor field ...

Birds catch the public imagination like no other group of animals; in addition, birders are perhaps the largest non-professional naturalist community. Genomics and associated bioinformatics have ...