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Spring 2023 BIO

Nature of Life turns 20, groundbreaking discoveries and more!

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Incoming first-year College of Biological Sciences undergraduates share a singular experience. They board a…
Since the University of Minnesota introduced the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) in 2019,…
Idil Abdi (Class of 2023) transferred to the college at the peak of the pandemic. She fell in love with…
Pacific field cricket; Credit: Jessie Tanner We all learned in high school biology, if not before, that…
Malignant cancer cells. Credit: Getty Images. Some diseases can be diagnosed by identifying physical changes…
In 1835, Charles Darwin sailed to the Galápagos Islands, a volcanic archipelago straddling the equator. He…
The end of the semester has been such a whirlwind of activity that I haven’t had much time to reflect on the…
From early detection and internal treatment of diseases to futuristic applications like augmenting human…
Jennifer Powers spends hundreds of hours in the field every year setting up and monitoring experiments. She…