Amanda Nguyen
On Saturday, March 12th, 2022, the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project’s Carl Bernacchi will be featured on an
Alisa King-Klemperer
A staggering 5.5 million tons of single-use plastics are generated each year by science labs, negating 83% of the world’s recycled plastics.
Kyle Shelton
What is the best time of day to take your medications?
Julie Wurth
Commercially viable biofuel crops are vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and a new tool developed by the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new set of molecular building blocks aims to make complex chemistry as simple and accessible as a toy construction kit.
Lois Yoksoulian
The Velcro-like cellular proteins that hold cells and tissues together also perform critical functions when they experience increased tension.
Huan Song
The NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded University of Illinois bioengineering pr
Alisa King-Klemperer
The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive in early cancer diagnostics.
Diana Yates
Scientists report that they have built a living “minimal cell” with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials – and a computer model of the cell that mirrors its behavior.
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A single genetic mutation can have profound consequences, as demonstrated in neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Huntington’s disease.
Ananya Sen
The Earth BioGenome Project, launched in November 2018, is an ambitious undertaking with the goal of sequencing all the existing, named eukaryotes—about 2 million species of fun