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IGB Profile: Mobile Bioengineering Lab
Katie Brady, Claudia Lutz
A group of undergraduate students has been awarded the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology’s Inclusive Excellence Award for a second consecutive year, extending their…
Popcorn Pedagogy Reaching New Ears
Paige Walk
Interdisciplinary collaboration at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is drawing on Education undergraduates to address societal grand challenges and putting them…
More Structural Protein Can Make Tumors Softer, the Inverse of How Lab Tumors are Made, Study Finds
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Higher levels of the structural proteins collagen and fibrin around a tumor counterintuitively make the tissue softer — the opposite of conventional thinking, a new study…
Illinois scientists sound the alarm on field inundation, work with farmers to find solutions
Lauren Quinn
Larry Dallas’ farm in Central Illinois’ Douglas County is as flat as it gets. That’s a good thing for planting straight rows and maneuvering farm equipment in the…
Cancer Center at Illinois Earns Prestigious National Cancer Institute Designation
Cancer Center at Illinois
The Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) announced it has been designated as a Basic Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This national recognition places CCIL…
Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation
Lauren Quinn
In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analyzed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected…
Researchers collaborate to develop red blood cell tagging technology
Jonathan King
Hua Wang (RBTE) is leading a collaborative research project to develop a technology that will target and tag red blood cells in the human body. Wang, a professor of materials…
IGB Profile: Core Facilities
Claudia Lutz
A foundational step in the scientific process is observation. The more we learn about the natural world, the further scientists have to go to make novel observations—to see…
Spatial Mapping Technique Allows Researchers to Understand Tumor Architecture
Hailee Munno
Tumors contain many different types of cells organized in complex spatial patterns that can influence how the disease progresses. Because of this, it is hard to predict how a…
