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Classes, Concentration, and Careers!

BioCOM’s first General Body Meeting is this Monday, 9/23! We will be meeting in Biology 120 during free hour, from 12:00pm-1:00pm. In this meeting we will discuss classes for the semester, study...

September 22, 2019 · 2:14 PM

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BioCOM Bioethics Panel Topic Survey

Vote to choose the upcoming Bioethics Panel topic now!

Hello! My name is Heer Patel. I am the Bioethics Committee Chair for Fall and Spring 2019. Please use the following link to help us choose a recent bioethics topic for the Fall 2019 Panel....

September 20, 2019 · 11:09 AM

Panel on Cell Line Contamination

April 11th, 2017, 7PM, Engineering 027

Join us on April 11th at 7PM in Engineering 027 as there will be a panel on cell line contamination! Featuring panelists will include: - Dr. Sandra Gabelli, Director of the Johns Hopkins...

April 3, 2017 · 8:28 PM

Some recent questions in bioethics

Ponder these while the BDC plans the debates!

The semester starts anew, and the Bioethics Debates Committee (a partnership between the Biology Council of Majors and Philosophers Anonymous) begins to organize another semester’s worth of...

February 5, 2015 · 9:37 PM

B-Ethical Returns to Campus

Exciting debates in biology and ethics!

Hi everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that BioCOM Ethical Debates (B-Ethical for short) is returning to campus and has grown from the bioethics debates that we hosted in the spring....

September 5, 2014 · 5:12 PM

Official Logo!

Hi all, we now have an official logo! Let us know what you think of it in the comments below.

April 29, 2014 · 8:20 PM

'Designer' chromosome for brewer's yeast built from scratch

First ever creation of an artificial eukaryotic chromosome

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/27/designer-chromosome-brewers-yeast-eukaryotic-saccharomyces-cerevisiae

March 30, 2014 · 3:09 PM

More news from biology at large

Up-to-date articles on the BioCOM website

The acid-bath stem cell technique mentioned last week is getting some strong skepticism. Researchers have been having difficulty reproducing the original results from Haruko Obokato, Charles...

February 21, 2014 · 11:31 PM

Biology news at large

You heard about STAP cells, right?

Did you hear that a geneticist at Harvard has invented an "evolution machine" in order to study mutations associated with diseases? How about the new technique whereby pluripotent cells can be...

February 7, 2014 · 4:50 PM

Study in Switzerland!

HAPP 403 course and a research opportunity all in one

Interested in International Field Research? There is an info session 11/11 5-6pm Admn 218. Check out the link below for more information. Here are some of the details at a glance: "In particular,...

November 1, 2013 · 9:41 PM

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