News Archive
Tuning in to fluorescence to farm smarter: monitoring plant light use saves indoor farm energy costs
Claudia Lutz
Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the rest of us. A new “smart lighting” system for indoor…
Researchers Identify Underlying Mechanisms that Help Explain Link Between PFAS Exposure and Testicular Cancer
Jonathan King
Ratnakar Singh, Research Assistant Professor of Comparative Biosciences, and Michael Spinella (ACPP/EIRH), Professor of Comparative Biosciences, collaborated in new research…
Paper: FDA-required drug labels shouldn’t be treated as evidence of patent infringement
Phil Ciciora
Federal law requires every prescription drug to include a document describing dosing guidelines, contraindications, results from clinical trials and safety considerations. But…
Renewable biological catalyst carries the potential to transform wastewater into phosphorus resource
Katie Brady, Claudia Lutz
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for plants and managing its availability is critical for growing crops to maintain the global food supply. In an effort to move toward a…
New "Stomata in-sight" system allows scientists to watch plants breathe in real-time
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Claudia Lutz
For centuries, scientists have known that plants "breathe" through microscopic pores on their leaves called stomata. These tiny valves balance the intake of carbon dioxide to…
Researchers Discover ABCA1 Protein’s Role in Releasing Molecular Brakes on Solid Tumor Immunotherapy
Hailee Munno
In recent years, cancer researchers have made major breakthroughs by using the body’s immune system to fight cancer. One of the most promising approaches, known as immune…
Stephen P. Long: Visionary, teacher, and doer
Lisa Ainsworth, Donald Ort
Stephen Long pioneered a multidisciplinary approach to advance our knowledge of photosynthesis, by integrating research at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecological…
Novel approach to a key biofuel production step captures an elusive energy source
Claudia Lutz
Plants grown for biofuel have the potential to power our travel industry, but an important fraction of their chemical power has remained stubbornly difficult to recover. New…
IGB Profile: Chris Panumpabi
Katie Brady
As an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Chris Panumpabi had never heard of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Now, he has…
