The year 1905 was an annus mirabilis, or miracle year—A rare historical moment in which key flashes of insight suddenly made the field of physics take off in new directions. That was the year Albert ...

For teachers like Tom Martinez, the standard biology curriculum can feel a bit stale—teaching the same old units, recounting facts that have been passed down for decades. Yet science teachers often ...

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Research in the biology department utilizes manipulative approaches to study gene function and the genetics of disease in a variety of model systems, including C. elegans, Drosophila melanogaster, ...

For the first time, scientists edited a gene in fertilized human eggs critical to early development. The experiments helped the researchers learn about fundamental human biology in a way they could ...

Rotation Talks C: Lynch, Sanders, Wallace, Charania, Ramakrishnan, Bulhassan (First year PhD & MS students: TBA) ...

Data from a series of randomized trials in the United States suggests that if teachers move genetics instruction toward more complex genomics concepts, they can help students have a more ...