Section: Biology

Eduardo, a leader in Pasadena City College’s Aquaponics Program, powers the aquaponic barrel system by bike. Pedaling the bike Produces… Read more »


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The Growing Continues

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What started as a technique to learn the scientific process, has bloomed into some great greenery outside of the Biology Studio in… Read more »


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The ability of botanists and other scientists to generate data quickly and cheaply is surpassing their ability to access and analyze it. Scientists facing too much information rely on computers to search large data sets for patterns that are beyond the…


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Two new studies provide a clearer picture of why some species move — and where they go — in response to climate change. One found a dramatic decline in populations of a mountain ground squirrel, except where humans lived. Another paper finds that pre…


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Curcumin, found in the popular spice turmeric, stopped the potentially deadly Rift Valley Fever virus from multiplying in infected cells, a new study shows.


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A research group is studying disease resistance in tuberculosis. The group has described the structure of a regulator that controls the expression of a pump that removes toxins from the bacteria.


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Nerves in squid skin control the animal’s spectrum of shimmering hues — from red to blue — as well as their speed of change, biologists have found. The work marks the first time neural control of iridescence in an invertebrate species has been demons…


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The New England Banksia is largely restricted to the eastern edge of the New England Tableland, and is common in places along Waterfall Way. Researchers have raised this flowering plant, until now classified as a variety of the Hairpin, to the taxonomi…


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A therapy used in an outbreak of equine piroplasmosis at the storied King Ranch in Texas is now being evaluated as a standard US treatment protocol.


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New findings of a key genetic mechanism in plant hormone signaling may help save crops from stress and help address human hunger.


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Aquaponics Experiments

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Today, biology majors designed experiments testing resource partitioning and diversity of Protistans living in Aquaponic fish tanks.  


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The scientifici process is brought up and used regularly in pretty much every science course on campus. It can be… Read more »


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