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Colloquium: Dudgeon on marine ecology in the Gulf of Maine
Colloquium: Meyer on ecological restoration in a changing climate
CSUN biologists show how cancer cells make themselves at home in healthy tissue
Before they begin to spread through the body, some cancer cells secrete molecules that may make tumor-free tissues more hospitable to invading cancer cells, CSUN…
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Rabbits find the Los Angeles suburbs as hospitable as nearby natural areas, but bobcats, their predators, are cautious about venturing into human-dominated landscapes to hunt,…
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Malachia Hoover, who earned her Master’s degree in Biology as part of CSUN’s RISE program, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Ford Foundation…
View More CSUN Biology MSci. alumna awarded Ford Foundation FellowshipCSUN microbiologists separate the quick and the dead in frozen Arctic soil
Microbiologists in the CSUN Department of Biology have carefully sifted the microbial community living in permafrost — the permanently frozen layer of soil below Arctic tundra…
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Climate change has warmed ocean temperatures, increasing the risk and frequency of coral bleaching, a stress response in which corals expel the colorful algal symbionts…
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Bacteria engineered to produce and deliver drug compounds could be a new powerful new tool for cancer therapy and many other medical applications. A new…
View More Bermudes Lab discovery could aid in engineering cancer-fighting bacteriaCSUN botanists find 10 different ways that Dudleyas do all right in dry conditions
Natural selection is very good at finding solutions to the challenges organisms face in varying environments. Often, selection acting on different species that face the…
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