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The Crops And Microbes for BioEconomy Resilience and Sustainability research theme is redesigning crops, microbes and ecosystems to produce next-generation biofuels and bioproducts.

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    Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI)

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    Alliance for Socially-acceptable & Actionable Plants

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Illinois is at the forefront of precision fermentation, an emerging technology that can develop tailored food ingredients in the laboratory. Yong-Su Jin leads PreFerS, a research institute based in Singapore that focuses on bringing these engineered foods to market.
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Q&A: Does the future of food production start in the lab?
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Pictured from left: researcher Yi Zhou, Professor Huimin Zhao, researcher Yifei Ge
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Illinois Researchers Engineer Enzyme to make Valuable Agricultural Chemicals
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Diwakar Shukla, right, and graduate student Diego E. Kleiman worked together to map the moving parts of more than 18,000 proteins in the human body in less than two days, a feat that used to take months on a supercomputer. Photo by Fred Zwicky
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AI model offers a faster way to explore how proteins move, study finds
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Pictured left to right: bioengineering professor Fan Lam, postdoctoral researcher Timothy Trinklein, and chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler / Jenna Kurtzweil
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Illinois Researchers Explore Intersection of Imaging Technology and AI
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Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Na Wei
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IGB faculty receives NSF grant to continue research on phosphate recovery
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From left to right: Sarah Schwartz, Iyke Nnaji, Shah-Al Emran, Jacob Kinsey, Cindy Yang, Zhengyi Zhang, Siun Lee, Frithjof Gressmann, and Abhishek Pandey / Kelly Darr
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Early Innovator Program announces 2026 pitch contest winners
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