It's a cloudy July afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and MIT Edgerton Center Instructor Amanda Mayer is using brightly-colored plastic to build proteins. She takes a small yellow block and moves ...

For Daniel Halloran, a former graduate teaching assistant (TA) for the University of Delaware’s Integrated Biology and Chemistry (iBC) course series, the connection between the two areas of studies is ...

For Lucas Farnung, there is no question more fascinating than how a single fertilized egg develops into a fully-functioning human. As a structural biologist, he is studying this process on the ...

The learning goals articulated below provide our students a framework for contextualizing and learning the fundamental knowledge needed to complete the biology major and to become prepared for future ...

Assistance during the first years of a biology major leads to higher retention of first-generation students. For many young college students, the first years are a time of wonder and excitement and ...

Pull on your headset, attach hand motion trackers, choose your avatar. You’re now ready for biology lab at one of Arizona State University’s new virtual reality pods. Biology students are among the ...

AI is changing the field of synthetic biology and how we engineer biology. It’s helping engineers design new ways to design genetic circuits -- and it could leave a remarkable impact on the future of ...

Tibetan monks at Sera Jey Monastery in Mysore, India, experience using microscopes for the first time. Courtesy of Dan Pierce, CC BY-NC-ND It would be quite appropriate for a college professor to ...

The mission of Bowdoin College's biology department is to offer an educational program that informs, challenges, and stimulates undergraduates in a broad range of biological inquiry at many levels of ...