Claire Benjamin
Photosynthesis drives yields, but in cold conditions, this process that turns sunlight into biomass takes a hit.
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.
Emily Scott
The Carl R.
Claire Benjamin
One of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century is how to sustainably feed a growing and more affluent global population with less water and fertilizers on shrinking
New York Times columnist and renowned author Carl Zimmer will be giving a lecture on his newest book, titled She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potenti
Dave Evensen
There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university.
Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research
Emily Scott
Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the IGB are still learning
Claire Benjamin
Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition.
Emily Scott
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death.
Claire Benjamin
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expe
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several large gene