News Archive
New model can accurately predict a forest’s future
Diana Yates
One of the great challenges of ecology is to understand the factors that maintain, or undermine, diversity in ecosystems, researchers write in a new report in the journal…
IGB celebrates opening of iBioFoundry, National Institute for Biofoundry Applications
Diana Yates
Scientists, government officials and participants from around the world gathered on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus for the grand opening of the National…
Study identifies hotspots of disease-carrying ticks in Illinois
Diana Yates
Scientists analyzed the distribution of three potentially harmful tick species in Illinois, identifying regions of the state with higher numbers of these ticks and, therefore,…
Researchers trace genetic code’s origins to early protein structures
Marianne Stein
Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be…
Bioeconomy U: How Illinois is leading the bio-revolution
Lauren Quinn
If you ate, filled your gas tank, took medicine, or did laundry today, you likely participated in the bioeconomy. That’s the part of the economy that taps as its source…
Long-term alcohol use suspends liver cells in limbo, preventing regeneration
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt the liver’s unique regenerative abilities by trapping cells in limbo between their functional and regenerative states, even after a…
Researchers capture new antibiotic resistance mechanisms with trace amounts of DNA
Lauren Quinn
Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to isolate genes from amounts of microbial DNA so tiny that it would take 20,…
IGB Team Science Leadership Program welcomes new faculty cohort
Katie Brady
Every day, researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology push the boundaries of genomics through multi-disciplinary, team science-driven research. Back for its…
High-volume antibody testing platform could accelerate disease research and treatment development
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Antibodies are the critical targeting agents of the immune system and the crux of immune therapy and vaccine development, but studying them is slow, expensive and labor-…
