Thirteen students working in CSUN Biology Professor Steve Oppenheimer’s lab contributed to work presented at the Experimental Biology 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida, earlier this…
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CSUN ecologists track the nightlife of the urban bobcat
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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CSUN 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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CSUN biologists test whether coral symbionts can beat the heat
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…
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CSUN 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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CSUN marine biologists track down “baby giants”
The giant sea bass is one of the most striking inhabitants of southern California’s coastal marine areas, but an important part of its life cycle…
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Kelber Lab dissects a protein’s role in regeneration
CSUN biologists have traced interactions between Cripto, a signaling protein associated with development and stem cell regulation, and other molecules that direct tissue regeneration. The…
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New volume of the New Journal of Student Research Abstracts showcases K-12 students’ science
A new volume of the New Journal of Student Research, edited by CSUN Biology Professor Emeritus Steve Oppenheimer, has been published online through the CSUN ScholarWorks…
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Bermudes considers tumor-fighting bacteria in Nature Reviews Cancer
A promising new tool for cancer therapy may be bacteria engineered to attack tumor cells, according to a review article recently published in the journal…
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