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How to feed the world by 2050?
Claire Benjamin
One of the most significant challenges of the 21st Century is how to sustainably feed a growing and more affluent global population with less water and fertilizers on shrinking
NYT Columnist and Author Carl Zimmer to Speak on New Book
New York Times columnist and renowned author Carl Zimmer will be giving a lecture on his newest book, titled She Has Her Mother’s Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potenti
Illinois teams with Anheuser-Busch for bee research
Dave Evensen
There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university.
Ainsworth to receive 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research
Study of archaeal cells could teach us more about ourselves
Emily Scott
Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the IGB are still learning
Rising temperatures may safeguard crop nutrition as climate changes
Claire Benjamin
Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition.
Researchers study bacterial immunity to understand infectious disease
Emily Scott
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death.
Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%
Claire Benjamin
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-expe
Unmuting large silent genes produces new molecules, potential drugs
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several large gene
Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making role in HIV
Laura Schmitt
Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today.
Study links nutrient patterns in blood to better brain connectivity, cognition
Diana Yates
A new study links higher levels of several key nutrients in the blood with more efficient brain connectivity and performance on cognitive tests in older adults.
