Shelby Lawson
CRISPR, (short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”), is a groundbreaking gene-editing tool that empowers scientists to finely manipulate DNA,…
Shelby Lawson
Decoding decisions of parental stickleback fish
Growing up in upstate New York, Tina Barbasch spent countless hours catching salamanders and frogs in her backyard woods…
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Exercise prompts muscles to release molecular cargo that boosts brain cell function and connection, but the process is not well understood. New research from the…
Stuart Robbins
Architecturally, Large Language Models are the basis for Generative AI popularized by ChatGPT from OpenAI, and similar products from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and C3.AI. …
RIPE Communications
It is possible to engineer increased mesophyll conductance in plants according to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mesophyll conductance plays a…
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including three from the IGB, have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and…
Shelby Lawson
Biomarkers are small molecules of interest to researchers, because they can indicate underlying diseases, often even before symptoms even appear. However, detecting these…
Ananya Sen
The Tibetan plateau—the world’s highest and largest plateau—poses a challenge to the people who live there because of its extreme climate. In a new study, researchers have…
Maeve Reilly
Sixteen academic professionals and civil service staff members, including two from the IGB, have received the Chancellor’s Staff Excellence Award recognizing exceptional…
Shelby Lawson
In coastal arid regions where water sources are scarce, windborne fog droplets play a crucial role in sustaining life. Many plants collect droplets from the fog, serving as a…
Jodi Heckel
Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships.
This year’s Illinois fellows are evolution, ecology and behavior…
Ananya Sen
Every year, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is awarded approximately $65 million in sponsored programs funding. The road to getting these awards is often long…