[ ] Charles Schroeder, Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (Biosystems Design) has been named a Dr. Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar, a position…
[ ] Ruby Mendenhall, Associate Professor in Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, and Social Work, was recently featured in a webcast on the Spotlight on…
[ ] The University of Illinois’ Institute for Genomic Biology has been renamed in honor of a microbiology professor who changed the course of science with his discovery of a third…
[ ] Pre-proposal applications for funding are being accepted now through February 27, 2015 This program helps bridge the gap between University innovations and the marketplace by…
[ ] Illinois plant biology professor Stephen P. Long and his collaborators have engineered sugarcane so that it accumulates oil in its stems that can be made into biodiesel. They now…
[ ] Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) and Jian Ma, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering (Cellular…
[ ] Internet search engines like Google allow us to search and parse the collective knowledge of the world—they anticipate the user’s questions, remember preferences, deliver…
[ ] Medicine is in the midst of a flood of genomic data. From the genomes of individuals to the genomes of our microbiomes there is an increasing need to develop computational methods…
[ ] A new study suggests that dogs may have first successfully migrated to the Americas only about 10,000 years ago, thousands of years after the first human migrants crossed a land…
[ ] As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, members of the Institute for Genomic Biology have once again traveled to BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics…
[ ] Douglas Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Mining Microbial Genomes) and Karen Sears, Assistant Professor of the School of Integrative Biology (Regenerative Biology…
[ ] Rashid Bashir, Bioengineering Professor and Department Head (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) has been elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and…
[ ] An international effort involving more than 100 researchers, nine supercomputers and about 400 years of CPU time has yielded the most reliable avian tree of life yet produced,…
[ ] Six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members have been elected 2014 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including Brendan A.…
[ ] Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering) and Phillip Newmark, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology…
[ ] The house mouse, stickleback fish and honey bee appear to have little in common, but at the genetic level these creatures respond in strikingly similar ways to danger, researchers…
[ ] Cellular Decision Making Focus of New IGB Theme If a cell is damaged, does it repair itself or decide to self-destruct? And just how does the cell make that decision? The…
[ ] Researchers report in the journal Nature that they have made a breakthrough in understanding how a powerful antibiotic agent is made in nature. Their discovery solves a decades-…
[ ] Eight percent of your genome derives from retroviruses that inserted themselves into human sex cells millions of years ago. Right now the koala retrovirus (KoRV) is invading koala…
[ ] Stephen Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology (Genomic Ecology of Global Change, Biosystems Design) was presented with the Thomson Reuters Highly…