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 ...

These schools lead the way in academic research. Fact: Within the biomedical sciences program, the University of California--San Diego offers a graduate-level molecular cell biology track that allows ...

The interdisciplinary, research-oriented Molecular & Cell Biology & Genetics program offers both MS and PhD degrees. The program provides a broad education-training program for graduate students ...

Kim Finkelstein recently asked her mother for help with her biology homework. It wasn’t to be. “She said they didn’t have DNA [studies] in school, and she couldn’t help me,” lamented the freshman at ...

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 ...