From backyard microbes to career possibilities, Spencer Schaberg ’28 pursues a passion for scientific discovery ...

Faculty 100 Q & A: Mengting Han on gene and brain function research ...

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 ...

“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 team of Julia van Kessel, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, and Laura Brown, a senior lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, both of the College of Arts and Sciences at ...

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 ...

Long-distance animal migrations can trigger relapse of dormant infections, influencing when and where infection risk peaks, according to a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The findings ...

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 ...

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, ...

Three students from Indiana University College of Arts & Sciences' Department of Biology were selected by the National Science Foundation to receive awards through its Graduate Research Fellowship ...

Fundamental discoveries about genetics, development, disease and more will be fueled for generations to come by a $500,000 gift that creates an endowment providing permanent support for the one of the ...

Suchetana “Tuli” Mukhopadhyay, a professor in the Department of Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, was awarded the 2025 Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women by the American Society ...