"Temporal scaling would arise if all physiological determinants of the risk of death in C. elegans acted as if they were jointly governed by a single stochastic process whose rate constant alone was altered by interventions."

"Dr. Epstein’s research focused on what he believes to be the single greatest barrier in the way of understanding microbial life. It is known as the great plate count anomaly." –Joshua Timmons, Biology Class of 2017 for COS News

"The number one story [that generated media buzz in 2015] according to Altmetric: "A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance," [was] published in January [2015] in Nature."–ScienceInsider News Article by John Bohannon

"Epstein is using ichips to understand the ecology of bacteria in the natural world. Most recently, some of his colleagues have buried ichips in Greenland tundra to study Arctic microbes." –Stat news article by Carl Zimmer

Biology professors Slava Epstein and Kim Lewis have been recognized by Foreign Policy for their innovative approach to bacteria cultivation.

Biology professors Slava Epstein and Kim Lewis have been recognized by Foreign Policy for their innovative approach to bacteria cultivation.

"Dr. Carolyn Lee-Parsons, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Biology, and Dr. Erin Cram, Associate Professor of Biology, have received a $650,000 grant from the NSF to investigate the production of cancer drugs in Catharanthus roseus, also known as the Madagascar periwinkle." –COS News Article

"Kevin Gozzi, . . . fourth-year biology student is the co-first author of the [Chai] lab’s most recent publication, which centers on chemical signals that stimulate bacterial biofilm formation and the underlying mechanisms."–COS News Article by Gwendolyn Schanker, Journalism and Biology majors, 2018

"The Net­work Sci­ence Insti­tute brings together an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team of renowned scholars from across the uni­ver­sity to dis­cover and inspire new ways to mea­sure, model, and pre­dict mean­ingful inter­ac­tions in social, phys­ical, bio­log­ical, and tech­no­log­ical sys­tems."–COS News Article by Thea Singer

"Maggy Benson is now the host and pro­ducer of Smith­sonian Sci­ence How, a live, half-​​hour web­cast aimed at intro­ducing middle school stu­dents to the research and per­son­al­i­ties of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Nat­ural His­tory." –COS News Article by Jason Kornwitz

"Experience tells us that sleep has a purpose; when we don’t get enough we feel and perform poorly and we develop an overwhelming drive to get sleep. Despite this, the functions of sleep and the reasons it evolved in so many animals are not fully understood." - COS News article by Jason Kornwitz

"Assistant professor Nikolai Slavov upends conventional wisdom about protein synthesis, indicating an active, rather than passive, role for the machinery behind the process."–News@Northeastern article by Thea Singer

"Philip Strandwitz wants you. Really. He also wants all of your friends, and probably your parents and relatives, too. Strandwitz, a PhD candidate for microbiology in Kim Lewis’s lab, the Antimicrobial Discovery Center, is taking a creative approach to big data that could be a model for the future of science." –Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017 COS News article

Cellular and Molecular Biology: Investigating Life at the Cellular Level The cellular and molecular biology major includes the background in mathematics, chemistry, and physics needed in the study of biology and the practical scientific skills associated with each of these subject areas. The major offers core courses in cell biology and in human genetics and […]