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Donovan named to 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Stephanie Henry
Sharon Donovan (MME), a professor of nutrition and the Melissa M. Noel Endowed Chair in Nutrition and Health at the University of Illinois, has been appointed to the USDA’s…
When temp drops, Siberian Miscanthus plants surpass main bioenergy variety
Claire Benjamin
Photosynthesis drives yields, but in cold conditions, this process that turns sunlight into biomass takes a hit. Miscanthus is a popular, sustainable, perennial feedstock for…
Illinois researchers are first to count growth factors in single cells
Laura Schmitt
Whether healthy or diseased, human cells exhibit behaviors and processes that are largely dictated by growth factor molecules, which bind to receptors on the cells. For example…
Launch of new Center for Genomics in Business and Society at IGB
Emily Scott
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) is excited to announce the launch of the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society, which…
In responding to predation risk, secondhand experience can be as good as new
Claudia Lutz
Throughout the living world, parents have many ways of gifting their offspring with information they will need to help them survive. A new study in Nature Ecology and Evolution…
In microbe populations, bioengineers find balance of opposing genomic forces
Claudia Lutz
Sergei Maslov, a professor of bioengineering and physics at the University of Illinois, sees a “universe in a grain of sand.” His research seeks to explore that universe by…
A new way to do metabolic engineering
Emily Scott
A novel method developed by a group of IGB researchers could change the way metabolic engineering is done.
Researchers from the IGB’s Biosystems Design theme, including…
Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain-cancer patients
Diana Yates
A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anaplastic astrocytoma, a rare malignant brain tumor, and…
Light green plants save nitrogen without sacrificing photosynthetic efficiency
Claire Benjamin
The top leaves of crops absorb far more light than they can use, starving lower leaves of light. Scientists designed plants with light green leaves with hopes of allowing more…