For teachers like Tom Martinez, the standard biology curriculum can feel a bit stale—teaching the same old units, recounting facts that have been passed down for decades. Yet science teachers often ...

This lecture and laboratory course will acquaint non-biology majors with the theory and practice of modern molecular biology, focusing on topics of current interest to society. The course will cover ...

Depending on the body's needs, the liver utilizes lipids to generate metabolic energy, secretes them as lipoproteins, or packages them for storage Unbalanced lipid storage and utilization result in ...

The basics of biology is what they're teaching kids in the first grade to gifted students at John Q. Adams Elementary in Dallas. The school recently unveiled an outdoor classroom and garden that ...

At the creature creation station at the new BioDesign Studio, visitors act like bioengineers. By sticking together a kit of computerized blocks that represent genes for various traits, they can create ...

Scientists have created a synthetic organism that possesses only the genes it needs to survive. But they have no idea what roughly a third of those genes do. Yet within those 473 genes lies a gaping ...