Turmeric, the fragrant and colorful spice used in a number of cuisines, has also had uses in traditional medicine, which are increasingly under investigation by…
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Climate change has already shifted global temperatures and precipitation patterns from historical conditions, but tracking how these changes have impacted vulnerable species and ecosystems is…
View More CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change
Modern molecular biology needs DNA, and molecular biology in space requires a way to get that DNA into orbit. Transporting bio-molecules above the Earth’s atmosphere…
View More CSUN biologist helps demonstrate a new way to take genes into space
The study of possible life on worlds beyond Earth is somewhat complicated by the fact that we have yet to find life on worlds beyond Earth. As…
View More CSUN biologist proposes gene expression could be the key to finding Martian lifeWe aren’t born with our gut microbiome, but we do acquire it very early in life — so early that the community of bacteria in…
View More CSUN microbiologists reveal how a taste for milk lets this bacterium make its home in our guts
Skeletal muscle progenitor cells may be the key to personalized therapies that regenerate muscle lost to disease or disorders like muscular dystrophy — given the right…
View More CSUN Biology undergraduate researchers help determine what muscle-forming stem cells need to take rootEfflux, the movement of molecules from inside a cell to outside, is a basic molecular function for all living things, and it’s particularly interesting for…
View More CSUN biologists describe how a molecular switch helps bacteria spit out antibiotics and get a move on
New species form as populations evolve differences that prevent them from interbreeding. Sometimes, the evolving differences themselves help to accelerate the process — especially differences in…
View More For these tree frogs, the course of reproductive isolation never did run true
Species everywhere in the world face rising temperatures as carbon pollution changes the global climate. Some, however, may be able to evolve as climate change…
View More CSUN biologists test giant kelp’s capacity to settle for climate-changed waters
Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a growing threat, potentially leaving doctors without effective treatments for many common infections. One way to stave off that future is…
View More CSUN microbiologists beat bacterial drug resistance by clogging a molecular pump