Department of Biology

Support for natural history - the study of organisms, how and where they live and how they interact with their environment - appears to be in steep decline in developed countries, according to Joshua Tewksbury, a University of Washington professor and WWF International scientist.

Four University of Washington students who developed a virtual reality game that provides real-time feedback for patients undergoing stroke therapy came away victorious at a neural engineering competition on Friday.

The Seattle Times Picture This blog features photographs from the Tech Sandbox competition at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering.

President's Medalist Megan Kufeld is both an athlete and a scholar."I want people to realize that it is possible to be both," she says.

That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and arrive in time for happy hour.

The driven goalkeeper is so much more than a rising star in the Pac-12. She's a molecular biology major. She has a 3.96 GPA. And she is the first Husky student-athlete in 20 years to win UW's prestigious president's medal as the university's top student in her class.

Shannon Narasimhan ('07) is making her mark as a physical therapist working with performers in the Big Apple and on tour.

Frustrated by the current funding model for scientific research, Cindy Wu ('11) and Denny Luan ('11) created a crowdfunding platform for research.

By adding a precise mix of dyes, hydrogen peroxide, a digestive enzyme and glycerin to a genetically unmodified dead fish, UW biology professor Adam Summers was able to generate photos of colorful, glowing fish skeletons.

University of Washington microbiologist Angela Rasmussen discuss cloning animals as part of a panel on the safety of cloned meat.

As Buddhists see it, and as scientists increasingly agree, all organisms are necessarily -- even marvelously and gloriously -- impermanent.

If you're a sparrow and you've flitted into another sparrow's territory, you can expect some warnings before you get attacked -- but not always, and that's puzzling University of Washington researchers.

Although a population of bacteria may be genetically identical, individual bacteria within that population can act in radically different ways.

Researchers hope to recruit duck hunters to provide hybrid duck specimens for a study at the University of Washington's Burke Museum, to determine if hybrids are the result of forced copulation.

A scalyhead sculpin is a nondescript fish but "stripped" to its skeleton and stained, it becomes striking enough to be among the 14 photos by Adam Summers, professor of biology, on display at the Seattle Aquarium.