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View More Microbial diversity, “ad astra per aspera”, this week in CSUN BiologyCategory: Publications
CSUN Biology inspects crime scenes and takes the temperature with an RNA motif
CSUN biologists hit the stride of the spring semester this week, with a full schedule of lectures and labs. Prospective Master’s students applying to labs…
View More CSUN Biology inspects crime scenes and takes the temperature with an RNA motifBiologists (and Biosphere) return for Spring 2026
Classes started this week for CSUN’s Spring 2026 semester, and Biology Department labs and lecture halls are welcoming back hundreds of students returning from winter…
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Matador Microbiologists Merge Mycology with Mahjong
Do toxic, glowing fungi play Mahjong? Mycologists Rudy Diaz, Resident Mycologist of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, and CSUN Professor of Biology David Bermudes didn’t…
View More Matador Microbiologists Merge Mycology with MahjongCSUN molecular biologists find how two proteins set skin cancer cells on the move
The many negative effects of cancers are amplified by migration of cancerous cells from their point of origin, a first step to metastasis and establishment…
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CSUN plant biologists document effects of drought stress on a spice-cabinet staple
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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CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change
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…
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CSUN biologist helps demonstrate a new way to take genes into space
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…
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CSUN biologist proposes gene expression could be the key to finding Martian life
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 lifeCSUN microbiologists reveal how a taste for milk lets this bacterium make its home in our guts
We aren’t born with our gut microbiome, but we do acquire it very early in life — so early that the community of bacteria in…
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