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Students complete their first STEAM TRAIN journey
Ananya Sen
Starting from September 2020, six groups of 38 students from Franklin STEAM Academy in Champaign met every Tuesday afternoon after school to conduct research on important topics
Fluorescent light clarifies relationship between heat stress, crop yield
Lois Yoksoulian
Scientists report that it is possible to detect and predict heat damage in crops by measuring the fluorescent light signature of plant leaves experiencing heat stress.
Portable, affordable, accurate, fast: Team invents new COVID-19 test
Diana Yates
A new coronavirus test can get accurate results from a saliva sample in less than 30 minutes, researchers report in the journal
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts Underway at the IGB
The Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) values equality and respect for every member of its community.
Investigating the role of Brd4 in diet-induced obesity
Ananya Sen
A new study, published in JCI insight, looks at how Brd4, a regulator of the innate immune re
Development of microsatellite markers for censusing of endangered rhinoceros
Alisa King-Klemperer
Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 individuals surviving in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra and
Piecing together the LanCL puzzle
Ananya Sen
Researchers from the Carl R.
Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago
Diana Yates
People up to age 40 living in economically depressed municipalities in the Greater Santiago, Chile, metropolitan area were three times more likely to die as a result of the infe
IGB member elected to National Academy of Sciences
Lois Yoksoulian
Wilfred van der Donk (MMG), the Richard E.
K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new resource is available to help guide teachers and school administrators as they reopen schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, assembled by researchers and experts at t
In pig brain development, nature beats nurture
Lauren Quinn
Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats.
COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity
Ahmed Elbanna
Scientists at the U.S.
