For Lucas Farnung, there is no question more fascinating than how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully-functioning human. As a structural biologist, he is studying this process on the ...

Plants are constantly exposed to a wide array of biotic and abiotic stresses in their natural environments, posing ...

For Daniel Halloran, a former graduate teaching assistant (TA) for the University of Delaware’s Integrated Biology and Chemistry (iBC) course series, the connection between the two areas of studies is ...

Systems biology modeling is entering a new phase. For decades, computational models—ODE and PDE systems, stochastic simulations, constraint-based networks, ...

DNA and RNA have been compared to "instruction manuals" containing the information needed for living "machines" to operate. But while electronic machines like computers and robots are designed from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biology class just got a lot more engaging for students at Arizona State University Polytechnic, where students are using virtual ...

Pull on your headset, attach hand motion trackers, choose your avatar. You’re now ready for biology lab at one of Arizona State University’s new virtual reality pods. Biology students are among the ...

Kim Finkelstein recently asked her mother for help with her biology homework. It wasn’t to be. “She said they didn’t have DNA [studies] in school, and she couldn’t help me,” lamented the freshman at ...