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Initiative offers COVID-19 testing, explores virus transmission's social factors
Sharita Forrest
An interdisciplinary team of Illinois scientists is working with clinicians and community researchers to expand access to COVID-19 testing by providing pop-up testing clinics fo
STEAM TRAIN: Middle Schoolers Perform Student-Driven Research
Elizabeth Innes
Every Tuesday afternoon after school, six groups of around 24 excited Franklin STEAM Academy students hang around online a bit longer to conduct independent research on topics o
Supporting new research areas through seed funds
Alisa King-Klemperer
From the beginning, Kim and Robert Benziger shared a desire to spread positivity and to give back to the community so that others would have the same opportunities.
Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life
Alisa King-Klemperer
Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine.
Two IGB faculty members elected AAAS Fellows
Diana Yates
Six faculty members at Illinois, including two from IGB, have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Three Illinois scientists rank among world's most influential
Diana Yates
Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list, including two from IGB.
Cassava may benefit from atmospheric change more than other crops
Claire Benjamin
Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates.
$87M grant will help advance bioindustrial manufacturing
Kimberly Belser
An $87 million grant from the U.S.
Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP)
The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP) is a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, coalescing in the
Biologists shed light on how microbes evolve, affect hosts
Sean Bettam, University of Toronto
The era of COVID-19 and the need to constantly wash one's hands and sanitize things have brought microbes to new levels of scrutiny, particularly for their impact on an individu
Acid-tolerant yeast model helps guide industrial organic acid production
Liam Jackson, Penn State
Microbes and other microscopic organisms could serve as sustainable “factories” to create many types of industrial materials because they naturally convert nutrients s
Lassogen raises $4.5M in seed round to develop novel therapeutics
Alisa King
Although small molecule drugs and antibodies continue to be the standard for cancer treatment, a new class of therapeutics — lasso peptides — may prove effective, especially for
