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Students complete their first STEAM TRAIN journey
Ananya Sen
Starting from September 2020, six groups of 38 students from Franklin STEAM Academy in Champaign met every Tuesday afternoon after school to conduct research on important…
Fluorescent light clarifies relationship between heat stress, crop yield
Lois Yoksoulian
Scientists report that it is possible to detect and predict heat damage in crops by measuring the fluorescent light signature of plant leaves experiencing heat stress. If…
Portable, affordable, accurate, fast: Team invents new COVID-19 test
Diana Yates
A new coronavirus test can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes, researchers report in the journal Nature Communications. Many of the components of…
Investigating the role of Brd4 in diet-induced obesity
Ananya Sen
A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune response, influences diet-induced obesity. The researchers believe that Brd4 could be…
Development of microsatellite markers for censusing of endangered rhinoceros
Alisa King-Klemperer
Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 individuals surviving in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo…
Piecing together the LanCL puzzle
Ananya Sen
Researchers from the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in collaboration with scientists at Oxford University have published a paper in Cell reporting the…
Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago
Diana Yates
People up to age 40 living in economically depressed municipalities in the Greater Santiago, Chile, metropolitan area were three times more likely to die as a result of the…
IGB member elected to National Academy of Sciences
Lois Yoksoulian
Wilfred van der Donk (MMG), the Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry and director of graduate studies in chemistry at Illinois, was elected to the National Academy of…
K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new resource is available to help guide teachers and school administrators as they reopen schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, assembled by researchers and experts at…