Most Americans may not be familiar with synthetic biology, but they may come to appreciate its advances someday soon. Synthetic biology focuses on creating technologies for designing and building ...

Genevieve Carlton holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University and earned tenure at the University of Louisville. Drawing on over 15 years of experience in higher education, Genevieve ...

A biology research center founded and directed by the late Bob Lewis will continue under the leadership of his daughter and an eight-member board. And if funding comes through, a new research facility ...

Exploring biology in its native environment is perhaps the ideal scenario for generating better hypotheses about the cellular interactions that influence—and drive—healthy and diseased states, ...

report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Although some malicious applications of synthetic biology may not seem plausible right now, they could become achievable with ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully ...

Biology — the science of life, living things and the processes that keep us all running — links up in essential ways with many other sciences, such as chemistry, physics and mathematics, which help us ...

Gain a deep understanding of people through a biological perspective—from chemical processes to whole organisms, and how humans impact and interact with their environment. Our broad-based curriculum ...

Mountain Lake is really special. They do a field herpetology class. There is a Biology of Insects class. My Biology of Fishes class is a field-based class, where students are immersed in fish biology ...

The Wittig Feminist Biology Initiative is a program through the University of Wisconsin Department of Gender and Women’s Studies funded by an estate gift from the late biologist Gertraude Wittig.