From Toxic Cone Snail Venom to Patented Painkiller

Baldomero “Toto” Olivera is the inaugural Gordon Lark Endowed Chair in biology

Airborne spores—the spread of fungal pathogens

Biologist Jessica Brown at Science@Breakfast lecture

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

Documenting a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations

Traveling with Gulliver: Mushroom that makes people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Mushroom inducement of Lilliputian visions studied by U biology grad student at the U

Great Salt Lake and the oldest stories of life

Uncovering nematodes living inside microbialites

Only cowbirds sing the watery blues

A biologist, a physicist and a psychologist walk into a lab …

How scholarships translate to student excellence

Biology majors Nathan Patchen and Isabella Scalise know a thing or two about the value of a scholarship

Brain cells that drive — and prevent — anxiety

One group of cells called microglia amps up anxiety response, while another quiets them

SRI Streams in Museum Research

Curious U undergraduates found in the Natural Museum of Utah

Biologist Jamie Gagnon is a 2025 U Presidential Scholar