Articles by Emily Makowski

Spurred by family tragedy, the medical physicist wants to treat cancer in a new way.

The pathogen appears to have come from wild animals, virologists say, and there are no signs of genetic manipulation in the SARS-CoV-2 genome.

The plant geneticist has revolutionized researchers’ understanding of how light affects plant growth and development, and is engineering plants to combat climate change.

The antimicrobial compounds ants excrete to defend themselves from pathogens may protect plants as well.

A gene involved in a newly described syndrome affects neural functioning in fruit fly embryos.

Many plants reflect ultrasonic waves, thereby attracting the pollinators, but one cactus takes a different approach.

Bacteria and sand form a strong building material.

Four University of Florida faculty members leave their jobs as a state committee that formed last month pledges to investigate individual researchers and institutions.

The DNA-protein complex has branches that fold back on themselves.

The mechanobiologist at Washington University in St. Louis studied how plants sense their environment.

Anemones keep their algae populations in check.

The Tel Aviv University researcher is interested in how the macromolecules affect the health and behavior of successive generations of worms.

Florence Sabin was known for her pioneering research and efforts to support women in science.

As global temperatures rise and winters shorten, caterpillars of the corn borer moth are emerging earlier in parts of the US thanks to changes in two genes, researchers find.

Flycatchers, warblers, and more were spotted in a biodiverse region known as Wallacea.