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Four Illinois faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Thomas Bruch
Four faculty members from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including one from IGB, have been newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,…
New approach makes AI adaptable for computer vision in crop breeding
Diana Yates
Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses…
Researchers Discover a New Type of Biomaterial for Drug Delivery in Cancer Treatment
Florence Lin
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are small particles secreted by cells, which inherit molecules from the parent cell. They have shown promise for the treatment of different…
DNA origami guides new possibilities in the fight against pancreatic cancer
Lois Yoksoulian
One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ’s dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study…
Researchers discover a way to reduce waste and save energy in making an industrial chemical
Tracy Crane
Sometimes less is more.
That’s what chemistry researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovered as they were developing a new chemical reaction…
CABBI Team Deploys Robotic Lab to Revolutionize Plant Bioengineering
Julie Wurth
As the global population grows, the demand for food and energy is increasing even as extreme weather events make crops more vulnerable to stress. While traditional breeding…
Lawson brings renowned plant science expertise to Illinois
Maria Raza
Growing up on an arable and livestock farm in Northumberland, the northernmost county in England, Tracy Lawson's (CABBI/PFS) childhood experience sparked a lifelong fascination…
Bioengineers Create Revolutionary New Nanocrystals
Ben Libman
From medical imaging to solar panels, many technologies of the future rely on nanocrystals. Nanocrystals are tiny particles of material, often only a few nanometers (one…
Drug-delivering aptamers target leukemia stem cells for one-two knockout punch
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Drug-carrying DNA aptamers can deliver a one-two punch to leukemia by precisely targeting the elusive cancer stem cells that seed cancer relapses, researchers at the University…
