From backyard microbes to career possibilities, Spencer Schaberg ’28 pursues a passion for scientific discovery ...

The five-year, $2.95 million R01 award, one of the NIH’s most competitive and sought-after grant mechanisms, will support a ...

Faculty 100 Q & A: Mengting Han on gene and brain function research ...

“Listen, if there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...

Indiana University biologist Mengting Han has received a prestigious $2.38 million Avenir Award in Genetics and Epigenetics of Substance Use from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National ...

Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, ...

In many organisms, individuals that produce more offspring tend to have shorter life spans than individuals who aren't as productive. But how does this happen? Biologists examining data from an ...

Amorphophallus konjac, popularly known as “devil’s tongue,” received lots of attention recently in the IU Biology Building Greenhouse, where two of the plants bloomed simultaneously. Read more: Stinky ...

Karlen Enid Correa Vélez, a postdoctoral research fellow in the van Kessel Lab in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research ...

An analysis of a global dataset of collected and observed bees shows that fewer species are being found in most recent decades. Although the word “bee” evokes in most people the image of the ...

Kimberly Rosvall, Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has been named the recipient of this year’s William Brewster Memorial Award, one of ...