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Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life

Alisa King-Klemperer

Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine. Yet despite their many differences, surprising similarities in the ways that they interact socially have…

Two IGB faculty members elected AAAS Fellows

Diana Yates

Six faculty members at Illinois, including two from IGB, have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Evolution, ecology…

Three Illinois scientists rank among world's most influential

Diana Yates

Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list, including two from IGB.…

Cassava may benefit from atmospheric change more than other crops

Claire Benjamin

Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates. The atmosphere's carbon dioxide levels are rapidly increasing…

$87M grant will help advance bioindustrial manufacturing

Kimberly Belser

An $87 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense matched by more than $187 million in non-federal cost-share will fund collaborative efforts by a team of private and…

Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP)


The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP) is a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, coalescing in the Infection…

Biologists shed light on how microbes evolve, affect hosts

Sean Bettam, University of Toronto

The era of COVID-19 and the need to constantly wash one's hands and sanitize things have brought microbes to new levels of scrutiny, particularly for their impact on an…

Acid-tolerant yeast model helps guide industrial organic acid production

Liam Jackson, Penn State

Microbes and other microscopic organisms could serve as sustainable “factories” to create many types of industrial materials because they naturally convert nutrients…

Lassogen raises $4.5M in seed round to develop novel therapeutics

Alisa King

Although small molecule drugs and antibodies continue to be the standard for cancer treatment, a new class of therapeutics — lasso peptides — may prove effective, especially…