Biology News Tailocins: The next generation of antibiotics might just come from understanding the viruses that infect bacteria Talia Backman - Ph.D. student, School of Biological Sciences, shares a micrograph of tailocins. "Transmission... Read More Access Scholar-Ella Bleak November 18, 2024 Above: Ella Bleak Ella Bleak’s journey as a self-proclaimed science nerd started... Read More As climate warms, California wildfires are becoming more severe, killing more trees California’s Caldor Fire burned more than 220,000 acres in the Sierra Nevada in 2021, destroying... Read More Christmas trees and climate change Small choices can make a big impact this holiday season, starting with your Christmas tree!... Read More Biology Student Stories: Mia Sheneman Finding Success as a Transfer Student: Support Systems and Determination “I am a transfer student... Read More SACNAS STEM University of Utah SACNAS cohort in Puerto Rico. Left to Right: Benning Lozada, Palepoi Gilmore, Parker Guzman,... 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Read More A TALE OF TWO WORMS : ADVANCING EPIGENETICS Have you ever wondered how a cell knows whether it’s supposed to be skin or... Read More Utah's Ant Man Found A New Species In His Backyard June 5, 2024 Above: John "Jack" Longino, in the tropics University of Utah professor Jack... Read More Establishing a “Wildfire Resilience Collective” Wilkes Center Hackathon, 2024 By Hannah Meier , PhD Student, School of Biological Sciences Caption: [from left to right]: Tegan Lengyel,... Read More SBS Student Commencement Speaker For the 2024 University of Utah student commencement speaker Eron Powell, a love of learning... Read More THE BEAUTY OF MATHEMATICS April 2, 2024 by Fred Adler After listening to an egregiously (and quite uncharacteristically) dull... Read More Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged heart tissue A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals,... 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Read More PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLAR AWARD Associate Professor of biology Sophie Caron is a 2023 awardee. The University of Utah Presidential... Read More OUR DNA 2023 Read the full issue of OUR DNA 2023, the magazine of the School of Biological... Read More MECHANISMS OF PLANT MICROBES 'Plants do have immune systems or immune responses, and a lot of people don’t realize... Read More Nadkarni named NatGeo Explorer at Large NADKARNI NAMED NATGEO EXPLORER AT LARGE The National Geographic Society has appointed famed University... Read More Epiphytes Face Growing Threats Orchids, mosses, ferns—or epiphytes, defined as nonparasitic plants that grow on other plants—are crucial for... Read More Fall's Flamboyance FALL'S FLAMBOYANCE To many, Utah’s fall leaves are a dazzling display of nature’s beauty.... Read More Thliveris ANDY THLIVERIS: 'REMEMBER THE UNDERGRADS' In December 2022, Andrew Thliveris BS’83 made a special... 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Read More A Tale of "Terroir": Porcini Mushrooms Evolved The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah has published a provocative new... Read More The BioKids ethic Earlier this year, when BioKids was awarded a half-million-dollar stabilization grant, where those monies were... Read More Meet your new anatomy professor “I took two years off following my bachelor’s in education,” says Jon Groot, PhD. “All... Read More Veteran Appreciation Lunch All veterans in the College of Science and the College of Mines and Earth Sciences... Read More Stolen Ivory Isotope data strengthens suspicions of ivory stockpile theft | Science shows the ivory dates to... Read More A best case scenario that wasn’t planned A cracker jack team of U of U undergrads works with principal investigator Ben Myers... Read More Why Bio Majors Love Chem: Meet the TAs It's de rigeur these days to talk about cross-over science. And to do it. Physicists... 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Read More Major Alex Horn, PhD'21 | USAF C-17 Pilot By Alex Horn I joined the Air Force as an 18-year-old cadet. I came to... Read More OUR DNA, Spring 2022 Issue THE SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES MAGAZINE OUR DNA magazine is a dynamic 360-degree snapshot of... Read More Juneteenth Day of Freedom Summit Juneteenth is a nationally recognized holiday that commemorates the ending of slavery in the U.S.... Read More Tiffany Do, Undergraduate Research Scholar “My hero is my brother,” says Tiffany Do of her brother Anthony. “He’s the first... Read More College Merger College of Mines and Earth Sciences to merge with College of Science. [caption id="attachment_8806" align="alignright"... Read More Metabarcoding for characterizing wild animal diets DNA metabarcoding is the large-scale taxonomic identification of complex environmental samples via analysis of DNA... Read More What gives mammals a tolerance to poisonous compounds? 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