CALS students and faculty are in the forefront of efforts to develop plant varieties for a burgeoning market

Ronald Crandall

The discovery-to-marketplace trail blazed by Harry Steenbock remains strong today. Here are some CALS-based businesses you should know about.

“Antennal drumming” guides caste development in social wasps

Jiming Jiang is unlocking the secrets of the centromere, an overlooked region of DNA that holds the key to chromosome engineering—and a new, possibly safer approach to gene therapy

12 Alumni who are making a difference.

Gene sequence may offer new hints for combating plant pathogen.

Student meet with former CALS nobel laureate

The organisms that live in the lab are evolving, too. Could we be wrong in thinking we know them so well?

A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.

Sean Carroll says exploring the creative power of genes is the next frontier in evolutionary biology.

Peering into the microscopic world of our genes.