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IGB Profile: Umnia Doha
Katie Brady
As a PhD student in mechanical engineering, Umnia Doha spent hours imaging 3D tissue scaffolds on the confocal microscopes in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic…
How are veterinarians advancing cancer research in dogs, and people?
Diana Yates
People are beginning to realize that dogs share a lot more with humans than just their homes and habits. Some spontaneously occurring cancers in dogs are genetically very…
Manipulation of light at the nanoscale helps advance biosensing
Katie Brady
Traditional medical tests often require clinical samples to be sent off-site for analysis in a time-intensive and expensive process. Point-of-care diagnostics are instead low…
Self-driving lab: AI and automated biology combine to improve enzymes
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved…
Fruit fly study reveals a gene’s hidden ability to keep regrowth on the right track
Claudia Lutz
Regeneration, the ability to heal damaged or lost tissues, is both everyday and a real-life superpower. Health research inspired by the remarkable regeneration of animals like…
Study links influenza A viral infection to microbiome, brain gene expression changes
Diana Yates
In a study of newborn piglets, infection with influenza A was associated with disruptions in the piglets’ nasal and gut microbiomes and with potentially detrimental changes in…
Researchers capture nanoparticle movements to forge new materials
Lois Yoksoulian
Researchers can now observe the phonon dynamics and wave propagation in self-assembly of nanomaterials with unusual properties that rarely exist in nature. This advance will…
Machine learning method helps bring diagnostic testing out of the lab
Katie Brady
What if people could detect cancer and other diseases with the same speed and ease of a pregnancy test or blood glucose meter? Researchers at the Carl R. Woese Institute for…
Heat-resilient crops are within reach — given enough time and money
Diana Yates
Laboratory and field experiments have repeatedly shown that modifying the process of photosynthesis or the physical characteristics of plants can make crops more resilient to…
