News Archive
$2.6 million to build versatile genetic toolkit for studying animal behavior
Diana Lutz, Washington University in St. Louis, and National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards to aid the research community as it pursues one of its grandest cha
Girls learn about plants inside and out at Pollen Power camp
Claudia Lutz.
Most summer day camps rely on some standard activities to entertain their attendees—indoor and outdoor games, crafts, field trips, and snacks.
Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, autism in humans
Diana Yates.
Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study.
Research to investigate oil field biosouring with new technology
Emily Scott. Photo courtesy of Bruce Fouke.
A new IGB research project seeks to solve a $90 billion global problem in the oil industry while making oil drilling less harmful to the environment.
Two undergrads improve plant carbon-cycle models
Diana Yates.
In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years.
How iBioFAB is building on changes in synthetic biology
Emily Scott.
In the concourse research lab of IGB, a robotic system is changing the face of synthetic biology.
Brief interactions spur lasting waves of gene activity in the brain
Diana Yates.
A five-minute encounter with an outsider spurs a cascade of changes in gene activity in the brain that can last for hours, researchers report in a study of stickleback fish.
New grant to study fish genomics, behavior
Kathryne Metcalf.
The three-spined stickleback is a funny sort of a fish.
Study identifies key player in heart enlargement
Steph Adams.
The heart is a dynamic muscle that grows and shrinks in response to stressors such as exercise and disease.
New 3D model predicts best planting practices for farmers
Claire Benjamin.
As farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind: How many plants germinated per acre? How does altering row spacing affect my yields?
Report evaluates computational genomics skills of African scientists
Emily Scott.
A new paper co-authored by Illinois and African scientists describes how an African bioinformatics network tested researchers’ ability to perform computational genomics tasks th
