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The first-ever complete sequencing of S. sobrinus by Bioengineering professor Paul Jensen and colleagues will help researchers better understand how this microbe interacts with the more common form of strep, S. mutans, which was sequenced more than 15 years ago.

Researchers first to sequence rare bacteria cause of rampant tooth decay

U. of I. researchers identified the factors most closely associated with a countrys risk of experiencing an outbreak of chikungunya or dengue. In a study of 50 years of data relating to chikungunya and dengue outbreaks around Indian Ocean regions, a U. of I. team including, from left, Rebecca Lee Smith, William Marshall Brown and Marilyn O’Hara Ruiz identified the factors most closely associated with a country’s risk of experiencing an outbreak. Smith and Ruiz are pathobiology professors; Brown is GIS lab

Study explores risk factors linked to chikungunya and dengue outbreaks

Civil and environmental engineering professor Helen Nguyen has found that water-softening additives may increase the risk of pathogen release into drinking water by weakening the grip that bacteria have on pipe interiors.

Chemicals that keep drinking water flowing may also cause fouling

The way microbes eat could explain their diverse yet stable communities

"Stable marriages" between microbes, nutrients they eat may explain diverse yet stable communities

Comparative biosciences professor Aditi Das and veterinary clinical medicine professor Timothy Fan found that a class of molecules that form when the body metabolizes omega-3 fatty acids may prevent cancer from migrating.

Products of omega-3 fatty acid metabolism may have anticancer effects

Bruce Schatz

Wearable device can predict older adults’ risk of falling

Saurabh Sinha

New informatics tool makes the most of genomic data

Outpace Symposium

Outpacing Antimicrobial Resistance Symposium

A new animal biology study of stickleback fish by Illinois animal biologist Alison Bell (left) and former Illinois doctoral student Laura Stein (right) shows that individuals show the same molecular and developmental responses to their own versus their parent’s exposure to predators

In responding to predation risk, secondhand experience can be as good as new

William Metcalf

Research confirms a new way for cells to conserve energy

World of Genomics at SLSC

IGB World of Genomics coming to St. Louis Science Center

As a graduate student at Illinois, Kelsey Witt led the mitochondrial DNA genome work on a newly published study of ancient dogs. Witt is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Merced.

First dogs in Americas arrived from Siberia, disappeared after European contact

Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Charles Schroeder, left, and graduate student Peter Zhou have found that single polymers -- acting as individuals -- work together to give synthetic materials macroscopic properties like viscosity and strength.

Study reveals how polymers relax after stressful processing

TerraSentia

Illinois' crop-counting robot earns top recognition at leading robotics conference

Representative fluorescent image of a stochastic Turing pattern of signalling molecules in a biofilm of forward-engineered E. coli cells. The field of view is about 300 microns across. Right: Computer simulation of a stochastic Turing pattern with parameters corresponding to the experimental conditions. The simulation region is smaller than that of the experiment, but the statistical properties of the patterns are in agreement with those of the experiment.

Researchers engineer bacteria to exhibit stochastic Turing patterns