Last winter when members of the Biology Club stumbled across a slimy, grey mass in a dog shark’s stomach during a dissection, ...

An interdisciplinary research team from Leipzig University and the Saxon AI center ScaDS.AI has developed a novel approach ...

The female reproductive system includes internal and external organs, each designed to carry out varying functions. Learn ...

In a study published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, scientists from the Department of Medical Biochemistry and ...

Yet only “Gray Tree” has scale-invariant branch diameters. When Mondrian removes the scale invariance in “Blooming Apple Tree ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin. This was likely so it ...

A vital pathway for breathing and nourishment is also an object of desire—and one of the body’s most vulnerable parts.

While experts know details about its diet, size, and general habitat, the aquatic reptile’s skin characteristics have ...

Want to donate your body to science? Although there’s a shortage of human cadavers for students to learn on, donating your ...

Research in the Department of Biological Sciences covers a broad range of biological disciplines across multiple hierarchical levels including molecular biology, microbiology, animal physiology, ...