Image: Butterflyfish and corals on a part of the Great Barrier Reef, a diverse community of interacting species threatened by climate change (Wikimedia: Wise Hok…
View More terHorst reviews the predictability of evolution in “tangled banks” of interacting species
Image: Kelp forest (Flickr: NOAA)
View More Nickols leads study tracking the success of California’s marine protected areas
Image: Figure 2 from Chacon and Rogers (2019), presenting immunohistochemistry staining to track the expression of Tubulin Beta-III in the neural plate
View More Rogers Lab identifies protein’s role in early nervous system development
Before they begin to spread through the body, some cancer cells secrete molecules that may make tumor-free tissues more hospitable to invading cancer cells, CSUN…
View More CSUN biologists show how cancer cells make themselves at home in healthy tissueThirteen students working in CSUN Biology Professor Steve Oppenheimer’s lab contributed to work presented at the Experimental Biology 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida, earlier this…
View More CSUN students’ research presented at Experimental Biology 2019 conference
Rabbits find the Los Angeles suburbs as hospitable as nearby natural areas, but bobcats, their predators, are cautious about venturing into human-dominated landscapes to hunt,…
View More CSUN ecologists track the nightlife of the urban bobcat
Microbiologists in the CSUN Department of Biology have carefully sifted the microbial community living in permafrost — the permanently frozen layer of soil below Arctic tundra…
View More CSUN microbiologists separate the quick and the dead in frozen Arctic soil
Climate change has warmed ocean temperatures, increasing the risk and frequency of coral bleaching, a stress response in which corals expel the colorful algal symbionts…
View More CSUN biologists test whether coral symbionts can beat the heatBacteria engineered to produce and deliver drug compounds could be a new powerful new tool for cancer therapy and many other medical applications. A new…
View More Bermudes Lab discovery could aid in engineering cancer-fighting bacteria