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 ...

In a series of posts I want to explore the interplay between basic biology, which looks at the natural world to learn about how life works, and synthetic biology, which studies what is not found in ...

The first-year introductory biology sequence provides a crucial foundation for students' careers. Some groups, such as first-generation college students (FGCS), lag behind their non-first-generation ...

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 ...