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…
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Basu Lab funded to help NASA search for life on other worlds
New grant funding will support CSUN Professor of Biology Chhandak Basu in a project to identify “fingerprints” of microbial life — chemical and physical markers that…
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Biology students and postdocs present their science at the fully in-person 2024 CSUNposium
The annual CSUNposium showcase of student research and creative work returns this Friday, and as in previous years, the Biology Department is well represented. Undergraduate…
View More Biology students and postdocs present their science at the fully in-person 2024 CSUNposiumCSUN 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…
View More CSUN microbiologists reveal how a taste for milk lets this bacterium make its home in our gutsN-COMPASS offers a look into paid student research in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine
The N-COMPASS program provides paid undergraduate research experiences in CSUN faculty labs working in stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, supported by California’s state agency…
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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 rootNew equipment expands the Flores Lab’s capacities to study how the gut microbes affect their hosts
The Flores Lab spent the summer getting to know the capabilities of a new high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) system and bioreactor, made possible by…
View More New equipment expands the Flores Lab’s capacities to study how the gut microbes affect their hostsCSUN 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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For these tree frogs, the course of reproductive isolation never did run true
New species form as populations evolve differences that prevent them from interbreeding. Sometimes, the evolving differences themselves help to accelerate the process — especially differences in…
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CSUN biologists test giant kelp’s capacity to settle for climate-changed waters
Species everywhere in the world face rising temperatures as carbon pollution changes the global climate. Some, however, may be able to evolve as climate change…
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