When James Morris started teaching biology at Harvard in 2000, he was dismayed by the textbooks that were available. Though there were exceptions, they tended to be dull, full of facts students were ...

Introduction to Biology Laboratory is a co-requisite course for the Introduction to Biology online lecture course - LIFE.1000. The two courses together fulfill a GenEd Science requirement. The lab ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Students in the University’s introductory biology lab now have the option to join a section in ...

When instructors at the University of Washington redesigned their introductory-biology course in a “highly structured” style, with active-learning exercises, daily quizzes, and weekly online essay ...

What do an amoeba and an elephant have in common? If liver cells have the same DNA as brain cells, why are they different? What goes wrong during cancer? The answers to these questions depend on the ...

The Department of Biology offers courses to explore a vast array of biological questions to all students at SCU. This includes core courses for non-majors, the introductory curriculum that supports ...

The university has ditched traditional intro bio labs—the kinds where students learn to use a pipette or dissect an animal—in favor of a virtual reality experience set in a VR wildlife sanctuary for ...

ONE of the hindrances to the more frequent introduction of science subjects into the schemes of study under the tutorial class movement has been the difficulty of arranging for the practical work ...

When College of William and Mary sophomore Jillian Walton began her introductory biology lab course this past fall, she thought that she’d be learning a lot about conducting research. But she didn’t ...

Synthesis and assembly of DNA powerfully enables reverse genetics-based approaches to scientific discovery. I'll present recent and unpublished work on genome refactoring and redesign, focusing on ...