The Biology Department was well represented at last week’s 2025 CSUNposium, with undergrad researchers and Master’s students presenting their research in dozens of talks and…
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Matador Microbiologists Merge Mycology with Mahjong
Do toxic, glowing fungi play Mahjong? Mycologists Rudy Diaz, Resident Mycologist of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, and CSUN Professor of Biology David Bermudes didn’t…
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CSUN plant biologists document effects of drought stress on a spice-cabinet staple
Turmeric, the fragrant and colorful spice used in a number of cuisines, has also had uses in traditional medicine, which are increasingly under investigation by…
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Check out the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest
The votes are in, and congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest: First place goes to Angelina Piette’s view of two-toed…
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CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change
Climate change has already shifted global temperatures and precipitation patterns from historical conditions, but tracking how these changes have impacted vulnerable species and ecosystems is…
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CSUN biologist helps demonstrate a new way to take genes into space
Modern molecular biology needs DNA, and molecular biology in space requires a way to get that DNA into orbit. Transporting bio-molecules above the Earth’s atmosphere…
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CSUN biologist proposes gene expression could be the key to finding Martian life
The study of possible life on worlds beyond Earth is somewhat complicated by the fact that we have yet to find life on worlds beyond Earth. As…
View More CSUN biologist proposes gene expression could be the key to finding Martian lifeCSUN microbiologists reveal how a taste for milk lets this bacterium make its home in our guts
We aren’t born with our gut microbiome, but we do acquire it very early in life — so early that the community of bacteria in…
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CSUN Biology undergraduate researchers help determine what muscle-forming stem cells need to take root
Skeletal muscle progenitor cells may be the key to personalized therapies that regenerate muscle lost to disease or disorders like muscular dystrophy — given the right…
View More CSUN Biology undergraduate researchers help determine what muscle-forming stem cells need to take rootCSUN biologists describe how a molecular switch helps bacteria spit out antibiotics and get a move on
Efflux, the movement of molecules from inside a cell to outside, is a basic molecular function for all living things, and it’s particularly interesting for…
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