Sharita Forrest
Neighborhood characteristics such as racial composition and poverty rates are associated with increased risks of late-stage breast cancer diagnoses and higher mortality rates am
Mechanical Science and Engineering
MechSE professor Taher Saif (M-CELS) has been named the 2018 recipient of the
Diana Yates
A new genetic study of ancient individuals in the Americas and their contemporary descendants finds that two populations that diverged from one another 18,000 to 15,000 years ag
Claire Benjamin
Plants such as soybeans and wheat waste between 20 and 50 percent of their energy recycling toxic chemicals created when the enzyme Rubisco—the most prevalent enzyme in the worl
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
With targeted drug and gene therapies, finding the target cells is only half the battle.
Claire Benjamin
Cassava is a staple in the diet of more than one billion people across 105 countries, yet this “orphaned crop” has received little attention compared to popular crops like corn
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has given researchers the power to precisely edit selected genes.
Stephanie Henry
Diets rich in nuts, such as walnuts, have been shown to play a role in heart health and in reducing colorectal cancer.
Ruby Mendenhall has been named the assistant dean for diversity and democratization of health innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine.
Diana Yates
A new article in the journal Science provides guidance for those intending to study
Claire Benjamin
Although it is erroneously treated as a subspecies, the dwindling African forest elephant is a genetically distinct species.
Diana Yates
An international consortium of scientists is proposing a massive project to sequence, catalog and analyze the genomes of all known eukaryotic species on the planet, an undertaki