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Biological Sciences

For the First Time, All Avian Evolutionary Relationships Revealed Through Collaboration

April 29, 2025

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Professor Emily Jane McTavish and colleagues at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have mapped the evolution of every known bird species. They created a complete evolutionary tree of bird species by combining data on 9,239 species published in nearly 300 studies between 1990 and 2024 and...

Study Builds on Plausible Scenario for Origin of Life on Earth

A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry co-authored...

Stem Cell Facility Expands Campus' Research Capabilities

The University of California, Merced, today celebrates the opening of its state-of-the-art Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry, made possible through the support of the California Institute for...

UC Merced Receives $1.3M Award to Create Center for the Study of Health Disparities

The University of California, Merced has secured funding to create a center that would research health disparities in ethnic underserved populations and train students interested in health-related...

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