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H. Rex Gaskins elected President-elect of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine


Founded in 1903, the SEBM is a not-for-profit scientific society formed to promote investigation in the biomedical sciences by encouraging and facilitating interchange of…

Harris Lewin Elected to National Academy of Sciences


Harris Lewin has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), it was announced today. Lewin, an emeritus faculty member in the Department of Animal Sciences and…

Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images


Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of…

New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier


Food-borne diseases might soon have another warrior to contend with, thanks to a new molecule discovered by chemists at the University of Illinois. The new antibiotic, an…

Team discovers how bacteria resist a 'Trojan horse' antibiotic


A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common “housekeeping” enzyme…

Insects Have Personalities Too, Research on Honey Bees Indicates


A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates. Some honey bees, too, are more likely than others to seek adventure. The…

Team discovers microbes speciating


Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes parted ways. They began evolving into different species – despite…

Lemelson-MIT $30,000 Illinois Student Prize Finalist


The University of Illinois has always been an incubator for innovation and entrepreneurship. Students and faculty alike have invented products, created new processes and…

Gene Robinson Named IGB Director


University of Illinois entomologist and neuroscientist Gene E. Robinson has been named director of the Institute for Genomic Biology, pending approval of the University of…

Abbott and University of Illinois Establish Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory


ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and URBANA, Ill., Dec. 19, 2011 — Abbott and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced today they have established the first-ever multi-…

Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM) Request for Proposals


The Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM), established in a partnership between Abbott and the University of Illinois, requests proposals in a Grand Challenge…

Team discovers how a cancer-causing bacterium spurs cell death


Researchers report they have figured out how the cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori attacks a cell’s energy infrastructure, sparking a series of events in the cell…