California ground squirrels have a difficult job of avoiding becoming snake food. Rather than running away, many prey animals will display a physical signal to indicate that they are aware of their predator or...

Genetic information being transferred from DNA to RNA to protein – this is the central dogma of molecular biology. In the standard flow of information transfer, a protein cannot build a protein, and the...

Prions are normal body proteins found in the brain of many animals, including humans. It is believed that prion proteins play a role in brain cell communication. Infectious prions are, lightly put, renegade zombie-proteins. They...

Do you want to be a physician? Chances are the thought has crossed your mind at one point in your life. The University of Manitoba Science Students’ Association (SSA) is endeavouring to shed light on...

Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland have developed new compounds to aid in the treatment of bacterial infections. These compounds act to accumulate and neutralize specific toxin proteins formed by pathogenic bacteria. Certain...

Vitalism is the doctrine that processes of living organisms are governed by unique principles due to a “vital essence” that is separate and distinct from the laws of physics and chemistry. In the 19th...

The course “Medicinal and Hallucinogenic Plants” is described as “a botanical and historical survey of medicinal, hallucinogenic and poisonous plants used in various cultures.” BIOL 3290 catches the eye of many science students at...