Biological Sciences Division

Over prescribing

Women are overmedicated because drug dosage trials are done on men, study finds

Aerial photo of UChicago Medicine campus

‘Everyone felt the urgency’: Labs around UChicago donate protective equipment to hospital

Mussels cling to a rock at low tide.

Genetic variation could help some species adapt to climate change

Two UChicago scientists win fellowships fostering ‘blue-sky’ research

Scientists build army of metal-organic nanoflowers to treat cancer

Thomas Gajewski

Specific microbes in digestive tract can boost success for cancer immunotherapy

World War I-era maps help track history of kelp forests in Pacific Northwest

Eminent bioengineering scholar to lead UChicago’s Center for Physics of Evolving Systems

Graduate students in biological sciences attend computation bootcamp

Cows

How chewing like a cow helped early mammals thrive