Biology

August 28, 2019

What Lemurs Can Tell Us About Love at First Whiff

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Anne Lacey helps Duke Biology graduate students find teaching assistantships or fellowships. Photo by Jonathan Black.

August 26, 2019

Blue Devil of the Week: Biology’s Spreadsheet Superstar

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A scanning electron microscope image shows the 1-micron projections on the adhesive patches of a leaping gall midge larva. Researchers aren’t sure yet what makes them so sticky. (Duke SMIF/Grace Farley)

August 8, 2019

Leaping Larvae! How Do They Even Do That Without Legs?

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By loading their eggs with more yolk protein, underfed worm moms make sure their offspring are better able to bounce back from starvation. Image courtesy of Jim Jordan, Duke University.

July 8, 2019

Life is Tough But So Are Worms -- Thanks to Mom

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How did humans get to be so much fatter than chimps, despite sharing 99% of the same DNA? The answer may have to do with an ancient shift in how DNA is packaged inside fat cells. Source: UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity.

June 26, 2019

What Made Humans 'the Fat Primate'?

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Show a zebra finch a sunset-colored object, and either it’s red or it’s orange, rather than somewhere in the middle. But when it comes to blues and greens, their brains are less prone to “either/or” thinking. Photo by JJ Harrison.

May 29, 2019

Birds Perceive 'Warm' Colors Differently From 'Cool' Ones

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Mario Borgnia loads a sample into the Titan Krios Cryo-EM microscope. (Credit: Megan Mendenhall)

May 15, 2019

A Giant Tool to See the Tiniest Things

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May 15, 2019

Emily Bernhardt on Hunting Down Mercury Pollution

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Dean Valerie Ashby (left) and Vice Provost Abbas Benmamoun (back to camera), spoke with Patrice Douglass, Gustavo Silva and Jarvis McInnis at the kick off of Black Think Tank.

May 9, 2019

Junior Faculty, Students, Launch 'Black Think Tank'

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May 1, 2019

Duke Sophomore Kya Locklear Named Udall Scholar

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Two Duke professors have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Robert F. Durden Professor of Biology Susan Alberts (left), and Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Sue Jinks-Robertson (right)

May 1, 2019

Two Duke Faculty Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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April 23, 2019

Safer Tagging & Better Data: A Student Effort to Help Scientists Around the World

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Rachel Roston, a biology graduate student who studies toothed whales, works with undergraduate students during a lab session. Photo by Megan Mendenhall.

April 9, 2019

These Animal Skulls Will Blow Your Mind

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April 1, 2019

Crowdfunding Research: Science With a Little Help From Its Friends

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Justin Wright, associate professor of biology at Duke, works on a study which is a collaboration with researchers from Syracuse University. Photo courtesy of Justin Wright.

March 20, 2019

Deeper than Basketball: Atlantic Coast Collaborations

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January 25, 2019

A Beautiful Hypothesis About Bird Song Gets Beat Up by Data

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