Biology
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Researchers Tout Role of Federal Funding
In the face of federal funding cuts, these Princeton researchers are speaking out
He Watched Biology from Up Close and Afar
Lewis Thomas ’33 (1913-1993)
Two Alumni Pen Book on Phosphorous
Jack Lohmann ’19 wrote the new book White Light, and Alice Maiden ’19 created the illustrations with linocut prints
Class Close-Up: Planting the Seeds of Ethnobotany at Princeton
Glenn Shepard ’87 teaches a class in ethnobotany called Psychedelics, Shamanism, and Plant Intelligence
A New Way To See Cancer
Ryan Corcoran ’99 is among those leading advances in early cancer detection using a blood test called liquid biopsy
Heather Lynch ’00 Uses Satellites to Study Penguins
‘It’s kind of cracked open this whole field of people who are starting to look at wildlife remotely’
Five Princetonians Honored With National Medals of Science
Hopfield Wins Nobel in Physics for Work on Artificial Neural Networks
The emeritus professor at Princeton share the prize with Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto
Jeff Levenson ’80 Is Curing Needless Blindness with Cataract Surgery
Levenson recently worked with YouTube star MrBeast to perform 1,000 surgeries around the world
Biology: Found: New Bird Species
Biology: Complex Copulation
A tiny, pond-dwelling organism has some of the most complicated sex on the planet
Biology: Mapping the Body
A new way to study how tissues function and what changes when disease strikes