Deep in a cave in the Missouri Ozarks, a ghostly crustacean blindly grasps for food in total darkness. Illuminated by a flashlight, the Bristly Cave crayfish shines white and nearly translucent. Cut off from sunlight for thousands of generations, cave cra... See more
In an advance that could one day lead to new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, Meredith Jackrel, an associate professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, and her team have developed a method to rapidly pro... See more
Much of the beauty — and challenge — of biology lies in its complexity. That’s especially true in the microbial world, where hundreds or thousands of different bacterial species may co-exist in a patch of soil or in a section of the human gut. Each specie... See more
Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in WashU Arts & Sciences, and Luis de Lecea, of Stanford University, have won $2.7 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a five-year investigation into the power of sleep to prevent, d... See more
WashU biologists Toby Pennington and Jonathan Myers contributed to an ambitious study on South America’s tropical forests, revealing important shifts in biodiversity. The biodiversity of trees in the Amazon rainforest was evaluated by a team that included... See more
