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Illinois team discovers a novel competence pathway in oral bacterium S. sobrinus to support research for targeted treatments of cavities

Novel pathway to support research for targeted treatments of cavities

Students complete their first STEAM TRAIN journey

Students complete their first STEAM TRAIN journey

Illinois researchers found that fluorescent light sensors can detect the otherwise invisible signs of high-temperature stress in soybeans and that this stress is linked to a reduction in crop yield.

Fluorescent light clarifies relationship between heat stress, crop yield

Researchers have developed a new approach to coronavirus testing, creating the first hand-held, battery-powered testing device that can yield accurate results in half an hour. The device can simultaneously test for multiple genes, researchers report.

Portable, affordable, accurate, fast: Team invents new COVID-19 test

Lin-Feng Chen is interested in studying the role of Brd4 in diseases such as obesity.

Investigating the role of Brd4 in diet-induced obesity

A Sumatran rhino is seen at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park in Indonesia

Development of microsatellite markers for censusing of endangered rhinoceros

Removing the phosphate group from kinases can activate them, which can be problematic. LanCL adds glutathione to these kinases, after which they became deactivated.

Piecing together the LanCL puzzle

Pamela Martinez and her colleagues report significantly higher infection rates and deaths in the more economically depressed municipalities of Greater Santiago, Chile, than in wealthier parts of the metropolitan area.

Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago

IGB member elected to National Academy of Sciences

IGB member elected to National Academy of Sciences

The K-12 Shield Playbook is a free online resource to help guide school reopenings, based on successful COVID-19 mitigation strategies used at the University of Illinois.

K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools

Using a newly developed pig brain atlas, Ryan Dilger (left) and Joanne Fil (right) researchers show no major differences in pig brain development between pigs in artificial rearing environments vs. sow rearing. The discovery has important implications for further laboratory-based testing of nutritional interventions and their effect on neurodevelopment.

In pig brain development, nature beats nurture

Scientists modeling the spread of COVID-19 showed that a temporary state of immunity arises when many social groups collectively have been infected. This 'transient collective immunity' is destroyed as people modify their social behaviors over time. For example, someone who isolated in the early days of the epidemic may at some point renew their social networks, meeting with small groups or large crowds. This 'rewiring' of social networks can trigger new epidemic waves, whose consequences and signatures can

COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity

Maize experimental field plot fumigated with elevated ozone (green pipes). Maize leaf samples were collected from similar rings throughout the growing season, to understand the response in diverse maize lines.

Ozone pollution harms maize crops, study finds

New grant awarded to study genomic privacy attitudes

New grant awarded to study genomic privacy attitudes

The pGENMi model was used to integrate data obtained from multiple studies to identify signaling pathways that were subsequently demonstrated to be relevant to metastasis-associated processes (upper right) and that show prognostic potential in colon cancer survival (bottom right).

New computational models to understand colon cancer