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, ...

The just-ended 2018-2019 flu season was relatively mild compared to the last season, during which nearly 80,000 people in the U.S. died of flu-related illness, according to estimates by the U.S.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antimicrobial resistance—associated with nearly 5 million deaths worldwide in 2019—is listed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of our most urgent public health problems.

Gabriel Muhire Gihana (Lacefield lab) is honored to be the first graduate student featured in the Journal of Cell Biology's People and Ideas series.

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 ...