The Biologist Is In

I haven't been feeling up to writing much lately. Most of my free time has been occupied with working on an academic project in meta-ge...

Most residents of the USA are familiar with Poison Ivy (or Poison Oak), but we're generally not familiar with a farm more poisonous tre...

The red-eyed fruit-fly familiar to biology students everywhere ( Drosophila melanogastor ) likes to lay eggs in recently spoiled fruit, whe...

The development of living creatures is all about he formation of patterns. Where hairs/feathers/scales grow on the skin; where ribs form...

[Image source.] Recently there has been some controversy in the news about the evolution of genomes in tardigrades. In particular, one...

You think you know pain. You've experienced pain all your life. You just might have probably broken a bone, or given birth, or been [mi...

Cakile maritima on a southern California beach. (I know this one is tasty, in real life.) In a previous post ( the-biologist-is-in.bl...