U of M researchers develop method for the practical cryopreservation of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), which is crucial to genetics research and critical to scientific breakthroughs benefiting human health.
Participants in the program will be chosen through a competitive application process, with priority given to companies led by women and people of color, as well as those based in Greater Minnesota.
Two juniors in the University Honors Program at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have been recognized as Goldwater Scholars by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
The University of Minnesota and its partners have received $7.1 million from the National Science Foundation to launch the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Urban Long Term Ecological Research program.
Comet Catalina is helping explain more about our own origins as it becomes apparent that comets like Catalina could have been an essential source of carbon on planets like Earth and Mars during the early formation of the solar system.
American green treefrogs are able to pinpoint a mating call from a potential mate by inflating their lungs to reduce their eardrums’ sensitivity to other noise — including muffling other species’ mating calls — according to new research from the University of Minnesota.
The spread of quagga mussels across the American Great Lakes has transformed the supply of phosphorus - a key biological nutrient - to the ecosystem, according to research published this week in PNAS.