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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,…
IGB honors renaming with symposium in memory of Carl Woese
Claudia Lutz.
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology’s recent symposium, "Looking in the right direction: Carl Woese and the New Biology," was conceived as a way to celebrate the…
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…
Cracking How Life Arose on Earth May Help Clarify Where Else It Might Exist
Claire Sturgeon
A unique theory about how life arose on Earth may reveal clues to whether and where else it might have arisen in the universe.
Does life exist elsewhere or is our planet…
IGB Director Gives Congressional Testimony on Value of Brain Research
Gene Robinson, Director of the IGB, served as one of five witnesses who gave testimony at the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Research and Technology Hearing in…