Kelp forests are the biological foundation of marine ecosystems all along California’s coastline, and their collective biochemical activity may help offset ocean acidification, according to…
View More Kelp forests could fight ocean acidification, CSUN marine biologists findThe sugars making up part of the viral capsule of the SARS-Cov-2 are an underexplored target for antiviral drugs, CSUN Professor Emeritus of Biology Steven…
View More CSUN molecular biologist aims for virality with review of COVID biochemistryTravel awards — small grants to support attendance of scientific conferences — offer a unique opportunity to recruit and support underrepresented minorities into scientific research and careers,…
View More How scientific societies can make science more inclusive — through travel
More than a decade of results from a summer program designed to prepare incoming CSUN freshmen for university-level classwork has closed much of the “achievement…
View More CSUN Biology faculty report on summer program’s success in closing achievement gaps
Engineering bacteria to produce complex organic molecules that can be processed into biofuel may be a key to removing fossil fuels from the global energy…
View More CSUN microbiologists track the genes that could turn cyanobacteria into biofuel factories
Antibiotic resistance factors carried by environmental bacterial can provide a reservoir of resistance to disease-causing bacteria, via horizontal gene transfer. This risk is thrown into…
View More CSUN microbiologists find bacteria resistant to a “last-resort” antibiotic throughout Los Angeles soils
Nutrients and sediment that wash into the ocean from agricultural lands and lawns may impact the stress tolerances of reef-building corals and their algal symbionts,…
View More CSUN marine biologists measure runoff’s effects on coral reefsThe National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $2.2 million in support for a project linking CSUN Master’s students to PhD programs at Stanford…
View More $2.2 million NIH grant provides “Bridges to the Doctorate” for CSUN students
CSUN Assistant Professor of Biology Cristian Ruiz Rueda received a new grant from the National Science Foundation this summer, which will support his lab’s continuing…
View More NSF funds Ruiz Rueda’s quest to understand how bacteria spit out antibiotics
Combing through over 50,000 records of animals visiting flowers, biologists at CSUN have found evidence of a pattern botanists have discussed since before the days…
View More CSUN biologists help demonstrate that a flower’s shape determines who visits