While global warming shrinks ice caps, it's expanding “oxygen minimum zones,” where newly discovered bacteria are depleting waters of nitrogen, a nutrient essential to life. This could be creating imbalances.
Do genetic regulators guide survival strategies in hard times? A tiny mutation in a roundworm says they may well.
CGIS researcher Tony Giarrusso recently installed a “Virtual Sandbox” in Rwanda where CGIS has been working with the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International for more than 10 years.
Effective July 1, the Georgia Tech College of Sciences has a new unit focused on the life sciences — the School of Biological Sciences.
