Diana Lutz, Washington University in St. Louis, and National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made 17 Next Generation Networks for Neuroscience (NeuroNex) awards to aid the research community as it pursues one of its grandest cha
Claudia Lutz.
Most summer day camps rely on some standard activities to entertain their attendees—indoor and outdoor games, crafts, field trips, and snacks.
Diana Yates.
Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study.
Emily Scott. Photo courtesy of Bruce Fouke.
A new IGB research project seeks to solve a $90 billion global problem in the oil industry while making oil drilling less harmful to the environment.
Diana Yates.
In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years.
Emily Scott.
In the concourse research lab of IGB, a robotic system is changing the face of synthetic biology.
Diana Yates.
A five-minute encounter with an outsider spurs a cascade of changes in gene activity in the brain that can last for hours, researchers report in a study of stickleback fish.
Kathryne Metcalf.
The three-spined stickleback is a funny sort of a fish.
Steph Adams.
The heart is a dynamic muscle that grows and shrinks in response to stressors such as exercise and disease.
Claire Benjamin.
As farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind: How many plants germinated per acre? How does altering row spacing affect my yields?
Emily Scott.
A new paper co-authored by Illinois and African scientists describes how an African bioinformatics network tested researchers’ ability to perform computational genomics tasks th