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New Student-led Exhibits Open at Life Science Museum

January 19, 2023
Students from life sciences and fine arts collaborate to address the climate and COVID-19 in two new engaging exhibits.
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Maintaining Molokai: Data Collection and Reef Restoration

By Angela Larson
January 04, 2023
BYU biology students collect data on local vegetation while researching coral reef restoration on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.
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Winners of the 2022 Life Sciences Photo Contest

December 26, 2022
Congratulations to the winners of the Life Sciences photo contest! Winners were chosen in two categories, Inspiring Learning and Artistic Merit. Read their stories behind the photos below.
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Finding a Cure for Chikungunya

By Julia Orellana-Funes
December 16, 2022
The virus, Chikungunya, which means "that which bends up," has a cure coming for it after student Madison Gray's research and findings.
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License and plant identification, please: BYU comes out on top (again)

By Kaigan Bigler
December 16, 2022
BYU students took the lead in individual and team competition at Utah's URME test for 2022, preparing to go to the international competition in 2023.
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Intellect

BYU-Smithsonian study first to fully sequence genome of endangered clouded leopards

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
December 14, 2022
Researchers from BYU and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute are doing their best to help protect the future of clouded leopards by studying their genetics. As detailed in a new study, the team has sequenced the entire genome of both species for the first time, and in doing so they’ve learned something critical they didn’t expect: the clouded leopard diverged into two separate species much earlier than previously thought.


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Preventing Muscle Atrophy? Just Add Heat

By Grace Christensen
December 13, 2022
When he was in fifth grade, Boston Andersen (‘22) was diagnosed with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, a condition that prevents blood from reaching the hip bone, causing the bone to die. As a kid who enjoyed being physically active, having a disease that kept him on crutches for a year was devastating.
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Character

Encouraged by professor, BYU students save lives through blood stem cell donations

By Christie Allen
December 09, 2022
Dr. Julianne Grose won an award for her work with bone marrow transplant registry.
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BYU students advocate for youth at SOPHE summit in Washington, DC

By Kaigan Bigler
December 05, 2022
Fourteen BYU students had the opportunity to interact with federal legislators to advocate for youth mental health at Washington DC's annual SOPHE conference
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