For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...
When scientists sequenced the DNA of a woman who lived to 117, they were not just cataloging the quirks of an extraordinary ...
A middle school science teacher in Minnesota reportedly claimed that biology cell lessons are steeped with “capitalist indoctrination.” The teacher, Mandi Jung, works at Highland Park Middle School in ...
One of the most pressing quests for molecular biologists is to understand the functioning of centromeres, the regions of DNA that hold together the two branches of chromosomes and that play a key role ...
The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...