The human body is made up of trillions of cells. They display immense cellular variety and a high degree of spatial organization – a product of development that continuously changes due to factors ...

Biologists mapping the human body have long assumed that every major kind of microscopic life inside us already had a place ...

The continuous generation of increasingly large-scale data sets in systems biology results in an urgent need for better visualizations of complex and interweaved biological data in the form of ...

If we unraveled the DNA of the 46 chromosomes of a single human cell, it would barely measure 2 meters. If we did the same with the rest of the body, if we aligned the 3 billion base pairs of its 5 ...

A new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer, University of California, Irvine and Baylor College of Medicine has created the world's largest and most comprehensive map ...

Fruit flies are excellent research models, in part because it is so easy and inexpensive to raise them, and also because they are so well characterized. The DNA of these insects is estimated to be ...

Students pursuing the Bachelor of Arts degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) at CU Boulder study both ecology and evolutionary biology. Ecology seeks to understand the processes that ...