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Category: Featured

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USDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash crop

Admin 26 August 2020 Chhandak BasuCucurma longa

CSUN plant biologist Chhandak Basu and colleagues at Alabama A&M University have received funding to continue a project developing turmeric as a cash crop for…

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Cells of a bacterium under the microscope, and a diagram of its interaction with the human gut.
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CSUN microbiologist Gilberto Flores receives NIH funding to study how bacteria help us get the most out of milk

Admin 26 August 2020 AkkermansiaGilberto Flores

CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Gilberto Flores received a big new grant from the National Institutes of Health this summer, which will support his lab’s…

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CSUN biology research immersion class tackles COVID-19 vaccine design

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Every spring semester class at CSUN has had to retool to cope with the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic; but Biology Professor David Bermudes’s…

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Illustration of cancerous cells entering the circulatory system
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CSUN biologist develops new method to detect cancer in its earliest stages

Admin 30 April 2020 cancer biologyChristian Ruiz Rueda

Knowing specific cancer-causing mutations offers the possibility to nip cancer in the bud — detecting and treating it before a tumor can proliferate and threaten…

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CSUN marine biologists help restore “baby giants” to the Santa Monica Bay

Admin 13 March 2020 giant sea bassLarry Allen

Image: Some of the baby sea bass. (Photo by Michael Couffer, via CSUNshine Today)

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A schematic of the components of the bacterial RNA polymerase and the role of a sigma factor in transcription (Srivastava et al. 2020, Figure 1)
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CSUN microbiologist reviews the potential of a molecule that could help turn bacteria into biological factories

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California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)
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Statewide coalition will study plants’ responses to climate change using pressed flowers

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Image: California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)

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Spiders spin their webs where the weather won’t bother them, CSUN Biology graduate finds

Admin 30 January 2020 Andrea Haberkernbehavioral ecologyspiders
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Compiling data across many experiments, CSUN biologist seeks the strongest source of natural selection

Admin 27 January 2020 Jeremy Yoderlocal adaptation
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A diagram of the "pangenome" inventory of genes found in 75 Akkermansia genome assemblies
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CSUN microbiologists uncover clues to a microbe’s role in the human gut

Admin 23 January 2020 AkkermansiaGilberto Flores
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