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Giving with Purpose
Gregory Toreev
Along with helping produce innovative medical and pharmaceutical products, Dr. Mark Tracy, PhD, founder and president of Tracy BioConsulting, LLC, strives to introduce…
IGB Announces New Partnership with ZEISS labs@location Program
A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS has named the Core Facilities at IGB…
New tool RODEO captures breadth of microbial biosynthetic potential
Claudia Lutz
In an age of booming biotechnology, it might be easy to forget how much we still rely on the bounty of the natural world. Some microbes make us sick, some keep us healthy,…
Microbiome Metabolic Engineering - New Theme at IGB
Susan Jongeneel.
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has formed a new research theme, Microbiome Metabolic Engineering (MME). Led by microbiologist and animal scientist Isaac Cann,…
Genome mining effort discovers 19 new natural products in four years
Diana Yates.
It took two postdoctoral researchers, a lab technician, four undergraduates and their faculty advisors only four years – a blink of an eye in pharmaceutical terms – to scour a…
Study Yields Insights into Human, Dog Migration in the Americas
Diana Yates.
A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a…
Study Shows Different Species Share a "Genetic Toolkit" for Behavioral Traits
Diana Yates.
The house mouse, stickleback fish and honey bee appear to have little in common, but at the genetic level these creatures respond in strikingly similar ways to danger,…
IGB Art of Science Images Featured at O’Hare Airport
Travelers passing through O’Hare International Airport can now enjoy beautiful imagery from the pioneering research taking place at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the…
Team uses cellulosic biofuels byproduct to increase ethanol yield
Team uses a cellulosic biofuels byproduct to increase ethanol yield
Scientists report in Nature Communications that they have engineered yeast to consume acetic acid, a…