Biology

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2020 vision for biology: the role of plants in addressing grand challenges in biology. 
  • A course-based research experience: how benefits change with increased investment in instructional time. 
  • A new phylogenetic data standard for computable clade definitions: the Phyloreference Exchange Format (Phyx). 
  • A preparatory course for medical students who lack a conventional academic background. 
  • A quantitative formulation of biology's first law. 
  • An object oriented user interface for analysis of biological data. 
  • Anything that involves a photon and an animal. 
  • Applications of Free-Electron Lasers in the Biological and Materials Sciences 
  • Biology of aging as related to cancer. 
  • Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil. 
  • Communal living: the role of polyploidy and syncytia in tissue biology. 
  • Connecting evolution, medicine, and public health. 
  • Debilitation's aftermath: stochastic process models of mortality. 
  • Development and ecology in the time of systems biology. 
  • Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Biology, Language, and Active Surveillance: A Survey of Breast Radiologists' Knowledge and Opinions. 
  • Enabling high-throughput biology with flexible open-source automation. 
  • Engineered Fluorescent Strains of Cryptococcus neoformans: a Versatile Toolbox for Studies of Host-Pathogen Interactions and Fungal Biology, Including the Viable but Nonculturable State. 
  • Environmental genomics: a key to understanding biology, pathophysiology and disease. 
  • Freedom and purpose in biology. 
  • Health and wages: evidence on men and women in urban Brazil. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Methods for combining ancillary data in stochastic compartment models of cancer mortality: generalization of heterogeneity models. 
  • Multi-ancestry transcriptome-wide association analyses yield insights into tobacco use biology and drug repurposing. 
  • Non-model model organisms. 
  • Participation, representation, and shared experiences of women scholars in biological anthropology. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Progress and Challenges in the Biology of FNDC5 and Irisin. 
  • Proton-coupled electron transfer. 
  • Reducing the risk of oral contraceptive-induced thrombosis. 
  • Relevance. Pharmacology in the high-school classroom. 
  • Spatial biology analysis reveals B cell follicles in secondary lymphoid structures may regulate anti-tumor responses at initial melanoma diagnosis. 
  • Spatiotemporal strategies to identify aggressive biology in precancerous breast biopsies. 
  • Stepwise model fitting and statistical inference: turning noise into signal pollution. 
  • The Snail's Charm. 
  • The biology of beauty sleep. 
  • The contributions of Jeanne Altmann. 
  • The genetic control paradigm in biology: What we say, and what we are entitled to mean. 
  • The next 20 years of ecology and evolution. 
  • Throw that epidemiologist out of the emergency room! Using the television series ER as a vehicle for teaching methodologists about medical issues. 
  • Ultrasound bioeffects and regulatory issues: an introduction for the echocardiographer. 
  • Under the skin: using theories from biology and the social sciences to explore the mechanisms behind the black-white health gap. 
  • Understanding the Complex Relationship between Critical Thinking and Science Reasoning among Undergraduate Thesis Writers. 
  • Want to improve undergraduate thesis writing? Engage students and their faculty readers in scientific peer review. 
  • Worsening Heart Failure Events in HFpEF: Underlying Biology Not Treatment Location. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Alberts, Susan C., Robert F. Durden Distinguished Professor of Biology, Duke Science & Society
  • Katz, David F., Nello L. Teer, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, in the Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Miller, Ezra, Professor of Mathematics, Mathematics
  • Richer, Renee Ann, Associate Professor of Biology at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty