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Stephen P. Long and Jeffrey S. Moore were named Stanley O. Ikenberry Endowed Chairs

Two IGB faculty members selected for distinguished chairs

The pixelated spatial gene expression tool can analyze an entire tissue sample and identify cancer cells in a process that takes less than two hours.

Novel chip-based gene expression tool analyzes RNA quickly and accurately

Fungicides are among the top contaminants of honey bee hives and can interfere with the bees' ability to metabolize other pesticides.

Agricultural fungicide attracts honey bees, study finds

U of I Swanlund Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld (left) works with colleague Chi Xue (right) at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

Virus-bacteria coevolution solves diversity paradox by 'Killing the Winner'

By tagging bees with custom barcodes, researchers were able to automatically track all members of a small honeybee colony.

Reach out and feed someone: Automated system finds rapid honey bee networks

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Princess Imoukhuede is a member of the IGB's Regenerative Biology & Tissue Engineering theme

Unsuspected flexibility offers new pathway to cancer drug development

Illinios alumnus and former manager of Ecolab Scott Fisher (center) with graduate student Samantha Zambuto (left) and Research Scientist Sara Pedron Haba

Alumnus funds graduate students researching brain tissue cultures

Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Director of Graduate Studies, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane

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Phase separation of two bacterial communities. Two distinct V. cholerae strains (red, blue) co-cultured on solid agar generate spatial structure when both have a T6 toxin-tipped nanoweapon (left) and are well-mixed when neither have the T6 system (right). Adapted from McNally, et al. Nature Communications (2017).

Team receives funding to study bacterial community dynamics

Gustavo Caetano-Anolles and his colleagues found evidence of gene sharing between viruses and organisms that are not their hosts.

Viruses share genes with organisms across the tree of life

Professor of Bioengineering and Physics Sergei Maslov is a member of the IGB's Biocomplexity research theme

In microbe populations, bioengineers find balance of opposing genomic forces

A novel method developed by a group of IGB researchers could change the way metabolic engineering is done.

A new way to do metabolic engineering

Pretzel’s brain tumor shrank more than 40 percent after treatment in a clinical trial for dogs with glioma.

Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain-cancer patients

Scientists have designed plants with light green leaves to allow more light to penetrate the crop canopy to increase photosynthesis and yield; however, models show these plants likely require less nitrogen and photosynthesis is hardly affected.

Light green plants save nitrogen without sacrificing photosynthetic efficiency