On Thursday, March 13, the Department of Biology hosted Greg Lang, associate professor of biological sciences at Lehigh ...

There are numerous types of yeast, and each one has its own unique properties. Here's 10 that are ideal for baking, brewing, ...

Georgia Tech scientists uncovered how whole-genome duplication emerges and remains stable over thousands of generations of ...

Fossils known as Prototaxites, which once dominated the land, have puzzled scientists since Darwin’s days. New evidence ...

Lurking within the genomes of nearly all species—including plants, fungi, and even humans—are genes that are passed from generation to generation with no clear benefit to the organism. Called "selfish ...

Environment and Climate Change Canada and Health Canada are promoting more public engagement in the risk assessment of higher organisms (such as genetically modified fish, insects and livestock ...

In addition to these healthy bacterial species, many of us also harbour small amounts of the yeast organism Candida albicans in our intestine. While Candida does not normally cause problems ...

For the factory in Jamaica, an organism has been developed at the Laboratory from a yeast used during the War of 1914-18 for feeding purposes ; though at the time nothing was known about its ...

In summary, the novel model organism data sets and the unique set ... investigations into the evolution of signaling networks from yeast, worm and fly to human. The system has been designed ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

Cryptobiosis is critical, because organisms with this capacity go into the special sleep state that’s required to be revived later. Think about animals that prepare for hibernation versus ones ...