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Plant diseases flourish in city landscapes
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Scientists find that small regions of the brain can take micro-naps while the rest of the brain is awake and vice versa
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Sampling eDNA for global biodiversity census
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Why some plant diseases thrive in urban environments
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New research from Zaher Lab takes a closer look at stress response in cells
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New study from Pakrasi Lab sheds light on how conflicting processes occur within a single cell
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Chemo for glioblastoma enhanced by tapping into cell’s daily rhythms
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The predator's dilemma
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Scientists track red-tailed hawks nesting near WashU campus
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Unlocking the ‘chain of worms’
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Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor Jennifer Wang
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Award of up to $31 million supports development of osteoarthritis treatment
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Keith Hengen, Washington University St. Louis – Sleep Resets the Brain’s Operating System
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Here and Next grant funds researchers seeking to use microbiome to restore soil health in Missouri
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New research offers insights into the inner workings of DNA methylation
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Most Missouri voters are tired of changing clocks every spring and fall
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Biologist Olsen helps launch global wild rice alliance
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DNA study reveals secrets of weedy rice invasion
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New insight into orchid origins
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Weedy rice gets competitive boost from its wild neighbors
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Benjamin Wolf returns to the WashU Biology Department as Greenhouse Manager
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From the back yard to the lab: Ben Mansfeld talks about his path to plant science
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Why do we sleep? Wash U has a lead
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Old research, new readers: A closer look at some of the most-read research stories from years past
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Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox.
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Some mosquitoes like it hot
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Why do we sleep? Researchers propose an answer to this age-old question
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Beyond the lab: squirrels, urban landscapes, and the joy of research
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Washington University professor explains the 'Science of Cats'
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Roots of diversity: How underground fungi shape forests
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WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
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The art and science of cancer care
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House Cats Will Rule the World: Domestic cats may evolve into the alpha predators of the future.
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Grant funds green fertilizer research at WashU
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Engineers to build cyborg locusts, study odor-guided navigation
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WashU students contribute to biomanufacturing in space
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No lizard is an island
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Birds have more than one way of adapting to extreme temperatures
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Want a healthy gut? Exposures in first year of life have long-lasting effects
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Environmental DNA could revolutionize monitoring of fish and wildlife
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You Believe Your Cat Loves You. Now Science Has Proof.
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Race-based variations in gut bacteria emerge by 3 months of age
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Hormone alters electric fish’s signal-canceling trick
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Fossil skulls alone cannot predict if animal was warm blooded
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Relationships Between Temperature and Animals’ Sizes Has Been Clarified
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How birds adapt to extreme temperatures: Hint: There’s more than one way to cope
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Study looks at summer solstice effect
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A plant research powerhouse
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Butterfly beginnings: Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America
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Biologist Jonathan Losos on ‘How Cats Evolved from the Savanna to Your Sofa’
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WU Office of Provost: Pulse Survey 2023-LB News Undergraduate students present their work at research symposium
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Genomics expands the mammalverse
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Integrating neuroplasticity and evolution
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Scientists engineer the first light-powered yeast
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‘Mussel Grubbing’ video screened at World Water Film Festival
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Biofuels as petroleum alternatives: Closing the carbon cycle with bacteria
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Decoding the chaos of cognition
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Hummingbirds use torpor in varying ways to survive cold temps
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Secret lives of salamanders
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Small flowers focus of big climate research at Missouri Botanical Garden
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Bioplastics and back: Bacterial construction and degradation methods
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How GPS tracking is helping expand our understanding of Forest Park
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WashU great ape, biodiversity research informs decision to expand Congolese park
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Office of Undergraduate Research relaunches with more opportunities for students
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Plant-specific histone deacetylases associate with ARGONAUTE4 to promote heterochromatin stabilization and plant heat tolerance
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When bugs swipe left
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Microbes on a chip: How microfluidics can help us better understand and engineer electroactive microbes
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The mystery of the mimic plant
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Planting for the future: Arboretum curator Stan Braude shares his goal for the campus landscape as well as for those who enjoy it.
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Synthetic biology and microbial electrosynthesis
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Forest Park Living Lab: St. Louis scientists collaborate on new study of wildlife in one of America’s greatest urban parks
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Slow Birding
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Keeping creativity at the heart of science
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Mallott's path to microbiome research
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Why Fall Color Will Fade
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Really watching those birds: ‘slow birding,’ with joan strassmann
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Humans Are Hardwired to Cheat. Here’s How We Stop Ourselves.
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Diversity Feeds Discovery: Spotlight on Arpita Bose
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A disordered domain plays a key role in cell division
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Biologist Wang to explore formation and regulation of key organizing complex in animal cells
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Spotlight on the Biology Imaging Facility and Director Dianne Duncan
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Hidden microbiome fortifies animals, plants too
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No, autumn leaves are not changing color later because of climate change
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Vagelos Fellowship established to support undergraduate research in biology at WUSTL
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Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
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Sound may be key to separating molecules, cells
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Modified nucleotides used in COVID-19 vaccines work as designed
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Improving microbial electrosynthesis with novel cathode modifications
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Seedy, not sweet: Ancient melon genome from Libya yields surprising insights into watermelon relative
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Retraction with honor
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Özpolat talks about regeneration research and science-inspired pottery
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Does this gopher ‘farm’ the roots it eats?: Root-cropping behavior may represent a kind of husbandry
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A bacterium that is not a microbe
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Zhong Lab's review article featured in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
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Zhong Lab's paper featured in Nature Communications
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Endangered species need help: No biology expertise required
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Study points to Armenian origins of ancient crop with aviation biofuel potential
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Spatial aspects of biodiversity important for healthy forests
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The space between us Missouri Ozarks study narrows in on spatial aspects of biodiversity, homogenization threat to forest ecosystems
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Flight, Feathers, and Freedom: What birds mean to us and why we should treat them better.
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Nonlethal parasites reduce how much their wild hosts eat, leading to ecosystem effects
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Canid conservation program launched
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Brains and brawn helped crows and ravens take over the world
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From rare soil microbe, a new antibiotic candidate
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Biology instructors bring the Undergraduate Research Symposium to the classroom
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Into the wild
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Big-Brained Birds Aren't Shrinking As Much With Climate Change
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Smith talks about engaging in research and presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
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Environmental researchers celebrate Earth Month all year
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Architecture, biology and ‘Cellular Transformations’
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Molecular ‘blueprint’ illuminates how plants perceive light
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New model predicts how geographic features influence evolutionary outcomes
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The NYC Squirrel Census is back with new results — and a toll-free number
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A predator could have sent hundreds of blackbirds crashing to their death in Mexico
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Decarbonization with microbial electrosynthesis
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Sneaky male guppies affect food web dynamics
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Student of sleep: A profile of Lizzie Tilden
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From Microbes to the Climate Crisis: An Interview with Microbiology Professor Arpita Bose
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Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction
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A pathway emerges Biologists describe structure and function of a heme transport and assembly machine
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Science research roundup: November and December 2021
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Using microbes to make carbon neutral fuel
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Wild turkeys among us
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The arsenal of molecular biology to combat the climate crisis
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Why is the North American fall so red, compared with Europe?
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Microbial electrosynthesis for sustainable bioproduction
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Using microbes to make carbon-neutral fuel
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WashU Expert: Time to retire daylight saving time
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Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles
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First artificial scaffolds for studying plant cell growth
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Why do affluent St. Louis areas host more wildlife? Blame the 'luxury effect'
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Islands are cauldrons of evolution: Study explores adaptation in island, mainland anoles
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The new-new kids on the block: hybrid lizards
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‘Fight or flight’ – unless internal clocks are disrupted, study in mice shows
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Hot topic: Fire and biodiversity in the Missouri Ozarks
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Behold the humble water flea, locked in a battle of mythological proportions
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Dr Arpita Bose – Harnessing Microbes to Produce Sustainable Plastics and Biofuels
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Missouri Wetlands Could Hold Smallest Weapon For Fighting Climate Change
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This Wasp Nest of Mine, I’m Gonna Let It Shine
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Wash U Biologist Explains How Lizards Evolved For Specialized Life In Trees
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More Fun Than Fun: Plants Also Have Their Social Lives and Family Disputes
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For larger, older trees, it’s all downhill from here
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White clover’s toxic tricks traced to its hybridization
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This Fish Is The Master Of The Poignant Pause
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Which Butterflies Might Go Extinct From Climate Change? Ask This Brazilian Scientist!
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What’s Holding Streptomyces Back from Producing Gene-Encoding Drugs?
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Depth of perception: In plant cells, a conserved mechanism for perceiving mechanical force resides in unexpected location
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Bio 500 Spotlight on the Kranz Lab by Eka Jose and Ethan Lowder
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Rare Iridescent Snake Discovered in Vietnam
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Living Earth Collaborative announces 2020 seed grant recipients
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Olin Library Updates
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Specialist enzymes make E. coli antibiotic resistant at low pH
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Blodgett receives CAREER grant from NSF
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Jez Lab receives NSF grant to collaborate with Maeda Lab at UW-Madison
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Leggy lizards don’t survive the storm
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Warming alters predator-prey interactions in the Arctic
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Researchers engineer bacteria that create fertilizer out of thin air
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Jet Lag: trips across time zones may get a bit easier
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VIP neurons hold master key to jet lag response
![A New Species in Forest Park](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Bob%20Blankenship%20and%20Ben%20Wolf.jpg?itok=6w8FQM4J)
A New Species in Forest Park
![Bugged out by climate change](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/Herbivore760.jpg?itok=1JXNEYMp)
Bugged out by climate change
![Sustaining life on Earth](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/life.jpg?itok=gcDBednK)
Sustaining life on Earth
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WashU Spaces: Keith Hengen
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Yehuda Ben-Shahar awarded $770,000 by the National Science Foundation
![Making Drugs From Bugs](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/People/Biology_Blodgett_J_P1044699.jpg?itok=JafjRdoK)
Making Drugs From Bugs
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Is Daylight Saving Time necessary? And, why ‘springing ahead’ is harder than ‘falling back’
![Keeping plant-cell motors on track](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/180307_jaa_ram_dixit_0685_small%202.jpg?itok=WZFU0Crm)
Keeping plant-cell motors on track
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(Daylight Saving) Time is not on your side
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Arms races and cooperation among amoebae in the wild
![The Secret Lives of Plants](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/marco-secchi-586948-unsplash.jpg?itok=45k4EECG)
The Secret Lives of Plants
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Large-scale removal of beachgrass leads to new life for endangered coastal lupine
Could tiny green creatures provide clues for how to create a more sustainable future?
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Becoming a biotech explorer
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2 St. Louis plant scientists dig deep into the struggles of research
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Arpita Bose receives a $40,000 collaboration initiation grant
![Plotting the path of plant pathogens](https://biology.wustl.edu/files/biology/styles/blog_thumbnail/public/articles/plos-pathogs_striking-image_760.jpg?itok=2Ns8j-TJ)
Plotting the path of plant pathogens
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