The five-year, $2.95 million R01 award, one of the NIH’s most competitive and sought-after grant mechanisms, will support a ...

“Listen, if there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, ...

Fundamental discoveries about genetics, development, disease and more will be fueled for generations to come by a $500,000 gift that creates an endowment providing permanent support for the one of the ...

In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers have ...

Roger Innes strives to understand the genetic and biochemical basis of disease resistance in plants. He studies how plants can recognize pathogens and actively respond. Innes is a Distinguished ...

Trees are often heralded as the heroes of environmental mitigation. They remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which slows the pace of climate change, and sequester nutrients such as nitrogen, ...

In many organisms, individuals that produce more offspring tend to have shorter life spans than individuals who aren't as productive. But how does this happen? Biologists examining data from an ...

Matthew Hahn and Malcolm Winkler, both professors of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology, have been appointed as distinguished professors—IU's highest academic title for ...

The Ecological Society of America (ESA) has announced the results of its recent election for five positions on its governing board. Among those selected by the membership to serve on the board is Jay ...

An analysis of a global dataset of collected and observed bees shows that fewer species are being found in most recent decades. Although the word “bee” evokes in most people the image of the ...

In spite of the COVID-19 pandemic, 370 graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Biology at IU Bloomington earned their degrees in 2020-21. Twenty (20) graduate students completed their ...

Long-distance animal migrations can trigger relapse of dormant infections, influencing when and where infection risk peaks, according to a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The findings ...