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Building Bridges to Connect Genetics Classroom, Lab Lessons

February 24, 2025

What role does gene expression play in predicting whether someone prefers salty over sweet snacks, or tends to be more of a night owl than an early riser?

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Three Students Awarded Prizes in the 2024 BIOL/GEN Undergraduate Life Sciences Poster Research Symposium

February 7, 2025

Best Poster Presentation ($200 gift card):
Catarina Cristian Santos Bittencourt de Almeida (Genetics)

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CALS Student Marshal: Madison Vetter

February 7, 2025

Madison Vetter has a passion for human biological sciences and was an active student in the research lab of Don Sakaguchi, genetics, development and cell biology, focusing on stem cell and tissue engineering and research.
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When Art Meets Science

February 6, 2025
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‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers

January 17, 2025
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A new wrinkle in turtles: Their genomes fold in a unique way, researchers find

January 16, 2025
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Percival's Part in Saving Endangered Bumblebees (Video)

January 16, 2025
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Increasing the Resilience of Pollinators (Video)

January 16, 2025
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Percival Scientific Walk-In Rooms for Insect Research (Video)

January 16, 2025
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Mohan Gupta awarded grant from Frontier Science Fund

January 16, 2025
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2025 Bailey Award to Fund Innovative Placental Research

January 16, 2025
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Understanding how plants balance growth and survival, one cell at a time

October 16, 2024
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Biology & Genetics Undergraduates - Community Service event has packaged over 65,000 meals for the food insecure

October 16, 2024

Biology and Genetics Undergraduate Programs - Community Service event helps to provide thousands of meals for the food insecure.
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Iowa's new 'pixie corn' may be short, but its benefits stand tall

June 7, 2024

A team of scientists at Iowa State University discovered, after seven years of research, a widely found gene in plants that acts as a key transporter for the hormone that influences root growth and development.
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BIOL 4230Lab (Developmental Biology Lab) undergraduate research published in Zebrafish journal

April 19, 2024

BIOL 4230Lab (Developmental Biology Lab) undergraduate research published in Zebrafish journal (Instructors: Drs. Jeff Essner, Renu Srivastava, and Maura McGrail).

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Lab-grown liver organoid to speed up turtle research, making useful traits easier to harness

April 9, 2024

“I told them, ‘Oh! I want to do that but with turtles. Is it doable?” said Nicole Valenzuela, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa State.
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Springing into Undergraduate Research

April 9, 2024

With buds and blooms beginning to dot campus, spring is in the air. Students are rushing to finish projects, and for some undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), this includes wrapping up their funded undergraduate research projects.
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Are you interested in becoming a Peer Mentor? Now hiring 2024-2025 BESTies!

February 19, 2024

Are you interested in becoming a Peer Mentor? The Biology Undergrad Learning Community (BEST) is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Academic Year!
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Building a DNA Nanoparticle to be Both Carrier and Medicine

February 8, 2024
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With deep roots and expanding collection, herbarium offers window into plant history

February 5, 2024
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