Three months ago, the first popular synthetic biology book was released. Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves is the work of Harvard biologist George Church and science ...

Charles Darwin. Carolus Linnaeus. Gregor Mendel. They’re all men. They’re all white. And their names appear in every biology book included in a new analysis of college textbooks. According to the ...

Biological Sciences Asst. Prof. Christina Kwapich became hooked on ants after reading “The Ants” by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson when she was about 9 years old. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book set ...

Two new books bring attention to old discoveries with the potential to cure stubborn ailments and reveal the secrets of biology. By Alex Johnson THE GOOD VIRUS: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise ...

An alum of the University of Iowa, Ted Anton has written for The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Chicago, The Chicago Tribune, and more. His novel, “The Longevity Seekers,” published by ...

Beth Lynch, Luther College associate professor of biology, recently contributed chapter 13, “The Ties That Bind: Biodiversity’s Critical Importance” in a book titled “Tending Iowa’s Land – Pathways to ...

Banana and plantain are among the world's major food crops, and considered as the poor man's fruit crop in tropical and subtropical countries. The world's total banana and plantain production ranks ...