WVU Today A West Virginia University biologist is studying why some animals can regenerate while others cannot and has identified the genes that play a role in the process. Christopher […]
Tag: biology
How and when did life begin?
When we think of life on Earth today, we imagine diverse sets of animals and plants. Life also includes tiny unicellular organisms called bacteria, some of which reside in our […]
Why do humans speak?
I once saw a post that described communicating as “emitting sound waves from one person’s mouth that go into another person’s ears and are then converted into brain waves.” It’s […]
A look at what makes up life
All life has seven characteristics in common: they have some sort of order, respond to changes in their environment, reproduce, grow and develop, regulate themselves, do things to maintain homeostasis, […]
West Virginia University graduate receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
A recent West Virginia University graduate was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in recognition of his research accomplishments and his proposal for graduate-level research. Noah […]






