Biological Sciences

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Community Members Aid Cutting-Edge Research in ‘BioBlitz’ Project

When scientists at UC Merced seek to better understand California’s biodiversity, they turn to cutting-edge genomics. They also turn to their neighbors.

Ancient Biological Clockwork Revealed Using ‘Secret Sauce’

Professor Andy LiWang shows his 3-D-printed model of the proteins that drive cyanobacterial circadian clocks.In finding a way to see assemblies of the proteins that direct cyanobacterial circadian rhythms, or biological clocks, U

Precision Targeting Provides New Insights Into Therapy-Resistant Cancers

Professor Fabian FilippThe National Cancer Institute’s “cancer moonshot” tasks researchers with, among advancing other new biotechnologies, delving into immunotherapy and epigenomic analysis.

Researcher Illuminates the Olfactory Life of Crabs

If you want to know what the ocean really smells like, you’ll have to ask a crab.

Yes, crabs have a sense of smell.

UC Merced Professor Delivers Pellissier Lecture

Professor Clarissa NobileEveryone is invited to hear UC Merced Professor Clarissa Nobile, this year’s Pellissier Distinguished Speaker, discussing biofilms.

New UC Grant Enables Deeper, Broader Valley Fever Research

Professors Hernday, Hoyer and Nobile (from left to right) play integral roles in a new Valley fever research project.Researchers at UC Merced are playing key roles in the new UC Valley Fever Research Initiative, studying ho

Genetic Changes Made Native Americans Susceptible to Smallpox, Study Shows

Professor Emilia Huerta-SanchezA new study identifies genetic changes in Native Americans that came about when Europeans settled in the Pacific Northwest and might have played a major role in why so many natives died of infectious disease.

Students Building Living Machines Out of Engineered Tissues

Students in Professor McCloskey's lab engineer and study tiny 'bio-bots' that could have huge medical implications.There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes,

Study: Warming Could Slow Upslope Migration of Trees

By Dan Krotz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Scientists expect subalpine trees to advance upslope as global temperatures increase, following their climate up the mountains.

But new research published Dec. 15 in the journal Global Change Biology suggests this might not hold true for two subalpine tree species of western North America.