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Deep sea microbe collector

While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.


C. elegans lab strains Patrick McGrath

Do genetic regulators guide survival strategies in hard times? A tiny mutation in a roundworm says they may well.


School of Biological Sciences logo again

Effective July 1, the Georgia Tech College of Sciences has a new unit focused on the life sciences — the School of Biological Sciences.


Ph.D. Biology student Xiaoxu Sun creates an oil spill on the beach in a paint tray.  The activity explains how oil is transported to the beach and the potential impacts of the oil to beach animals and ecosystems. Photo by Joel Kostka/Georgia Tech

School of Biology’s Joel Kostka, students engaged fifth-graders in oils spills, oil-eating bacteria.


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