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The time is RIPE to transform agriculture and feed the world
Claire Benjamin
University of Illinois receives grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FFAR, and DFID to catalyze photosynthetic improvements, increase yields for farmers world
Airlines could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from new promising feedstock
Claire Benjamin
A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second.
Researchers use computation and genomics to battle tooth decay
Laura Schmitt
An expert in using computational and experimental techniques to combat infectious diseases, Illinois Bioengineering faculty and MMG member
Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution
Jordana Cepelewicz
Quanta magazine recently interviewed Swanlund Professor of Physics and leader of IGB's Biocomplexity research theme, Nigel Gold
Scientists discover spring-loaded mechanism in unusual species of trap-jaw ant
Diana Yates
Researchers reveal how a group of trap-jaw ants can snap their jaws shut at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour – just fast enough to capture their elusive prey.
NSF awards Illinois $3M for interdisciplinary graduate student training
Samantha Jones Toal
The National Science Foundation recently granted the University of Illinois $3 million for an interdisciplinary graduate student training program to help form new insight on the
Workshop “bridges” empirical, theoretical understandings of climate and crop yield
Claudia Lutz.
The societal stakes for assessing climate change impacts on agriculture and food supply are incredibly high.
Combating antiviral drug resistance with dynamic therapeutics
Emily Scott
Antiviral drug resistance has long been a problem in modern society.
Slowing dangerous bacteria may be more effective than killing them
Steph Adams
Researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered a mechanism that allows bacteria of the same species to communicate when their survival is threatened.
New microscope technique reveals internal structure of live embryos
Lois Yoksoulian
University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to produce 3-D images of live embryos in cattle that could help determine embryo viability before in vitro fertilization
New handheld spectral analyzer uses smartphone to detect disease
Laura Schmitt
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that typically re
Auinash Kalsotra Awarded MDA Grant for Studying Myotonic Dystrophy
Steph Adams.
The grant to Prof.
