UNH Marine Biology Bootcamp It was an early move-in for a group of first-year UNH students who packed their bags and boarded a boat to Marine Immersion week at the Shoals Marine Lab. Marine Immersion is an intensive,... By: University of New Hampshire … Continue reading →

SUGAR BIOLOGY by Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels Harvest Films, based in Los Angeles, have commissioned sculptors Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels to create a giant human-shaped city in sugar cubes for a commercial by global giant Brita, the... By: Brendan Jamison … Continue reading →

AP Biology "Inner Fish" Interview Szabo, Muller, Rago By: Dawn Sasek … Continue reading →

Biology Discussions Agriculturists VS. City Planners A debate on who should get the highest quality of water, agriculturists or city dwellers. By: Theodore Bolas … Continue reading →

Evolutionary biology techniques can and must be used to help solve global challenges in agriculture, medicine and environmental sciences, advises a nine-member global team led by an evolutionary ecologist from University of California, Davis. Findings from the study will appear Sept. 11 in Science Express. Evolutionary biology is often overlooked in the study of global challenges, said lead author Scott Carroll of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and the Institute for Contemporary Evolution, also in Davis. By looking at humanitys problems across the domains of nature conservation, food production and human health, it is clear that we need to strengthen evolutionary biology throughout the disciplines and develop a shared language among them. The new study calls attention to how evolutionary biology can be used to address challenges in agriculture, medicine and environmental sciences, for example, in crop breeding, avoiding antibiotic resistance, genetic therapy for diseases and mitigating the effects of climate change. A particular worry is the unaddressed need for management of evolution that spans multiple sectors, such as occurs in the spread of new infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance genes between natural, human health and agricultural systems, Carroll said. Many of the global challenges we face … Continue reading →

By Bjorn Carey Robert Tod Schimke, professor emeritus of biology at Stanford, was creative, unpretentious, irreverent, critical and supportive, often all at the same time. Colleagues say that each of those qualities helped him make some of the most important discoveries and contributions to modern cell biology and genetics, while also being a fantastic mentor to dozens of young scientists. Schimke died in Palo Alto on Sept. 6 at age 81 following several months of declining health. Schimke was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1932. His father was a dentist, and his mother a pianist and piano teacher, laying the foundation for what would be a prosperous scientific and artistic career. He was a brilliant student and school came easy to him he could do a week's worth of geometry homework in an hour. That left him plenty of time to get into trouble, and he described himself as a "holy terror" and a frequent visitor to the principal's office. He came to Stanford as an undergraduate on full scholarship and although he was a gifted and avid painter, he studied pre-med, graduating in 1954. He then went to Stanford School of Medicine and began to focus on research, particularly … Continue reading →