The complexity of contemporary biology is a source of wonder, fear, and misunderstanding. Thierry Hoquet reviews the major ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research ...

This readable book is written by Joy Hakim, a teacher who became a newspaper reporter and the widely celebrated author of A History of Us ... questions about life that have shepherded the ...

It stands metres high, takes a decade to flower, smells like death and draws huge crowds when it blooms. But scientists are ...

Eggs are remarkably complicated biological devices that have developed in diverse ways in different species.

Metals, particularly iron, have played a crucial role in biological functions since life's inception. Scientists propose that iron was the predominant metal in early life, shaped by its abundance in ...

Key aspects of extinctions in the history of life are here reviewed by six leading palaeontologists, providing a source text for geology and biology undergraduates as well as more advanced scholars.

The Department of Biology at Saint Louis University believes that protecting and promoting biological and social diversity is central to our mission of understanding biology through research, critical ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — A professor of plant molecular biology wants people to know that plants have stem cells too. Just like in the medical world, plant stem cells could support human growth and ...

In late 2020, in a watershed moment in both biology and computing ... of sequence space that nature has sampled through the history of life would equate to almost just a drop of water in all ...

Current areas of faculty scholarship and expertise include Cell and Developmental Biology, Microbiology and Infectious Disease, and Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Within these areas of ...

The failure to diagnose Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia in the elderly—at an early stage of molecular ...