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Ting Lu jointly presented with €1 million Future Insight Prize

Huan Song

Ting Lu (BCXT/BSD/CABBI/MME), a professor of bioengineering at The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, received the 2021 Future…

Researchers overcome winking, napping pigs to prove brain test works

Lauren Quinn

If you've ever been to an eye doctor, there's a good chance you've felt the sudden puff of air to the eye that constitutes a traditional test for glaucoma. It's no one's…

Program increases underrepresented groups in biomedical data science, quantitative biology

Siv Schwink, Ananya Sen

FUTURE-MINDS-QB, a bridge program streamlining a path from a master’s degree at Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, to a doctoral degree at…

Energycane produces more biodiesel than soybean at a lower cost

Marianne Stein

Bioenergy from crops is a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. New crops such as energycane can produce several times more fuel per acre than soybeans. Yet, challenges…

New markers for coronary microvascular disease identified

Ananya Sen

Although cardiovascular disease is the main cause of illness among women in the U.S., certain conditions such as coronary microvascular disease (CMD) cannot be easily diagnosed…

Protein ‘big bang’ reveals molecular makeup for medicine and bioengineering

Lauren Quinn

Proteins have been quietly taking over our lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began. We’ve been living at the whim of the virus’s so-called “spike” protein, which has mutated…

Magnets intensify electrolysis, utilize carbon dioxide more efficiently

Claire Benjamin

For decades, researchers have been working toward mitigating excess atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. One promising approach captures atmospheric CO2 and then,…

Researchers develop a new technique to treat middle ear infections

Ananya Sen

Middle ear infections, also known as otitis media, affect more than 80% of the children in the U.S. In a new study, researchers have designed a miniaturized 3D-printed device…

DNAzymes could outperform protein enzymes for genetic engineering

Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

Move over, gene-editing proteins – there’s a smaller, cheaper, more specific genetic engineering tool on the block: DNAzymes – small DNA molecules that can function like…