The American Association for Anatomy (AAA) is excited to highlight the winners of its 2025 summer award cycle. The organization recognizes eight individuals at various stages of their careers who will receive funding aimed at increasing scholarship, offering opportunities for further education, supporting attendance and participation in professional development workshops, and assisting those finishing their dissertations or engaging in postdoctoral work. 

Using historical nursery catalogs to predict plant invasion, incorporating animal communities into assessments of ecosystem health and more from ESA’s journals.

A University of Maryland entomologist helped develop a deadly fungus that spreads during mating to target mosquitoes that spread disease to humans.

A groundbreaking technique developed by Politecnico di Milano researchers is enabling scientists to control specific bacterial functions using light-sensitive materials. The Engineering Of bacteria to See light (EOS) project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), has pioneered a system that allows bacteria to sense light and convert light energy into electrical signals across their membranes without the need for any genetic modification. This method is being explored as a promising solution to the growing global challenge of antibiotic resistance.

Its potential applications include developing next-generation antimicrobial platforms, where light is used to target resistant pathogens, and biocompatible, light-guided “bacterial robots” capable of delivering drugs to specific areas of the body, even those that are typically difficult to reach, such as the gastrointestinal tract.

A team of researchers from The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) has shared new research on the contamination at Holloman Lake in southern New Mexico. The team began studying PFAS contamination of wildlife at Holloman Lake in 2021.

Examining the fallout from the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period, researchers found that the species that survived weren’t random.