Category Archives: Biology

Biology

Two people stand at a table, examining and holding intricate, circular, layered paper models with cut-out patterns.

 Biology February 03, 2026

Making science move: Organoids project re-imagines adrenal glands through models and motion

Nadja Zeltner is an associate professor in UGA’s Center for Molecular Medicine and the principal investigator on a project that could help improve treatment of patients suffering from familial dysautonomia, a rare genetic disease that can cause developmental delays, frequent pneumonia and other debilitating challenges. The findings were published in a recent issue of “Nature Communications.”

 Biology August 26, 2025

From lab to startup: Zeltner founds NeelaCell Tx to advance genipin research

John Ciemniecki

 Biology August 01, 2025

UGA microbiology postdoc receives Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellowship

A new study draws connections between domesticated baker's yeast and wild varieties of yeast.

 Biology April 25, 2025

Spread of baker’s yeast tied to human migration

An image of University of Georgia researchers Michelle Momany, Karen Norris, and Marin Brewer who are combining forces to fight fungal diseases. Many of them life-threatening.

 Biology September 04, 2024

A new public health enemy #1

Jorge Escalante

 Biology July 17, 2024

NIH renews support of studies of bacterial metabolism and physiology

Yun Tao

 Biology July 16, 2024

IoB’s Tao breaks convention in studying habitat fragmentation

A woman works with laboratory equipment while a man stands behind her, observing, in a dimly lit room.

 Biology October 26, 2023

UGA to offer state’s first Ph.D. in regenerative bioscience

Douda Bensasson

 Biology March 14, 2023

Bensasson uses yeast to unlock life’s greatest mysteries

Close-up, digitally generated image of round, orange, yeast-like fungal cells connected by strands, representing a microscopic view of Candida species.

 Biology March 09, 2023

Model mycology: UGA scientists fight fungi for the rest of us