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IGB Profile: Umnia Doha
Katie Brady
As a PhD student in mechanical engineering, Umnia Doha spent hours imaging 3D tissue scaffolds on the confocal microscopes in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic…
Flightpath Biosciences licenses microbiome-sparing antibiotic developed at Illinois
Diana Yates
Flightpath Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision therapeutics targeting bacterial pathogens, has licensed a class of…
Stephen Long recognized as 2025 World Food Prize Top Agri-Food Pioneer
Marianne Stein
Stephen Long (BSD/CAMBERS/PFS), Ikenberry Endowed Chair Emeritus of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been selected as a…
How are veterinarians advancing cancer research in dogs, and people?
Diana Yates
People are beginning to realize that dogs share a lot more with humans than just their homes and habits. Some spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are genetically very…
Manipulation of light at the nanoscale helps advance biosensing
Katie Brady
Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low…
Self-driving lab: AI and automated biology combine to improve enzymes
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved…
Fruit fly study reveals a gene’s hidden ability to keep regrowth on the right track
Claudia Lutz
Regeneration, the ability to heal damaged or lost tissues, is both everyday and a real-life superpower. Health research inspired by the remarkable regeneration of animals like…
Study links influenza A viral infection to microbiome, brain gene expression changes
Diana Yates
In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets’ nasal and gut microbiomes and with potentially detrimental changes in…
Researchers capture nanoparticle movements to forge new materials
Lois Yoksoulian
Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with unusual properties that rarely exist in nature. This advance will…
