New research challenges the one-level view of evolution, showing natural selection works on individuals and groups together.

The common view of natural selection is based solely on the individual: A trait allows an organism to out-compete its rivals and is thus passed down to its offspring. To suggest otherwise can provoke ...

A microprotein called adipogenin appears to play a key role in helping fat cells store lipid droplets—a phenomenon that's pivotal for metabolic health, a study co-led by UT Southwestern Medical Center ...

An international study has used a computational biology tool that, by analyzing a multitude of biological data from multiple sclerosis patients ranging from genetic information to the whole organism, ...

Nikki Romanik and Ashish K Jha propose a new surveillance system to detect and attribute emerging biological threats to enable a rapid public health response Recent advances in bioengineering ...

Eunyoung Choi receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging. Research my team and I published in the journal Science Advances in March 2025 suggests that long ...

The Department of Biological Sciences treats the life sciences in all their breadth and diversity, including the study of molecules, cells, whole organisms, ecosystems, plants, animals and ...