In The News: School of Life Sciences

The Scientist

The International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes recently pulled the rank of phylum into its code of official nomenclature. Experts say the move will help standardize science in the long run but potentially disrupt research now.

The Blade

Metroparks Toledo now has scientific evidence to prove two of its more controversial decisions in recent years — culling deer and removing non-native trees, including pines — have paid dividends in terms of expanded, diversified, and healthier plant growth.

Yahoo!

Metroparks Toledo now has scientific evidence to prove two of its more controversial decisions in recent years — culling deer and removing non-native trees, including pines — have paid dividends in terms of expanded, diversified, and healthier plant growth.

Houston Chronicle

Food and oxygen are scarce on deep space flights. Time is plentiful.

Detroit Free Press

The murder hornets that have been making headlines and both terrifying and fascinating the public can be as deadly as their nickname implies, but their true threat is to honeybee populations, rather than people.

National Geographic

The day a cyprinodont challenges you to hold your breath for as long as possible, run away. Inhabiting hot springs in California's Death Valley, this tiny bubbler is able to go without oxygen for nearly five hours, according to a new, forthcoming study.

Baylor College of Medicine

The Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at Baylor College of Medicine granted nearly $4 million in awards to four outstanding researcher teams in response to its Biomedical Research Advances for Space Health (BRASH) 2101 solicitation.

Popular Science

CRISPR reached a big milestone this year by treating a disease inside the body—here's what's next for the technology.

EurekAlert!

Heligenics, Inc. today announced a new collaboration with The Jackson Laboratory. This joint project will make available the functional output of Variants of Unknown Significance throughout key portion of the ERBB2 gene through the JAX Clinical Knowledgebase, a digital resource that connects clinicians and researchers around the globe in order to interpret complex cancer genomic profiles.

PR Newswire

Heligenics, Inc. today announced a new collaboration with The Jackson Laboratory (JAX). This joint project will make available the functional output of Variants of Unknown Significance (VUS) throughout key portion of the ERBB2 gene through the JAX Clinical Knowledgebase (CKB), a digital resource that connects clinicians and researchers around the globe in order to interpret complex cancer genomic profiles.

King's College London

The award worth $1.2 million will support research into the structural characterization of macromolecules involved in bacterial virulence.

KSNV-TV: News 3

As UNLV plans for the fall semester, the university expects students will be back on campus.