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Department of Biology
Tackling global challenges through bioscience education and impactful research.
Our research
Our world-class bioscience research addresses major global challenges.
Grounded in excellent fundamental science, our research spans the discipline and generates solutions for a sustainable green future and a healthy human population.
Biology at York is a really exciting place to be! Amazing staff, enthusiastic students and exceptional facilities drive interactions between research and teaching, which in turn create collaborations and innovations that produce positive impacts on global challenges.
Professor James Chong, Head of Department
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A forgotten landscape that once drew world-leading botanists to North Yorkshire could hold the key to restoring lost wildlife, according to new research.
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BioYork is a new magazine highlighting research news from the Department of Biology.
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Researchers in the York Structural Biology Laboratory and the Department of Biology have led an international research collaboration in virology.
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Professor Luke Mackinder is to undertake a 10-year project to unlock the secrets of how algae capture half of global carbon dioxide in a bid to combat climate change.
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