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Researchers led by Stephen Long (left) and Don Ort (right) will continue transformative work to increase yields of food crops for farmers worldwide through Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency with the support of a five–year, $45-million reinvestment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, and the U.K. Department for International Development.

The time is RIPE to transform agriculture and feed the world

Deepak Kumar, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois, and Vijay Singh, Director of the Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory, led work to show the economic viability of a promising new feedback to produce sustainable bio-jet fuel. Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois

Airlines could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from new promising feedstock

Bioengineering Research Assistant Professor Paul Jensen

Researchers use computation and genomics to battle tooth decay

Nigel Goldenfeld applies the physics of condensed matter to understand why evolution was blazingly fast for the earliest life — and then slowed down.

Seeing Emergent Physics Behind Evolution

Scientists discover spring-loaded mechanism in unusual species of trap-jaw ant

Scientists discover spring-loaded mechanism in unusual species of trap-jaw ant

NSF awards Illinois $3 million for interdisciplinary graduate student training

NSF awards Illinois $3M for interdisciplinary graduate student training

Birmingham-Illinois Partnership for Discovery, Engagement and Education (BRIDGE).

Workshop “bridges” empirical, theoretical understandings of climate and crop yield

Christopher Brooke, professor of microbiology

Combating antiviral drug resistance with dynamic therapeutics

U. of I. biochemistry professor Satish Nair, left, postdoctoral researcher Shi-Hui Dong and their colleagues discovered a mechanism by which bacteria signal one another to become more virulent. The researchers hope to manipulate this pathway to treat disease.

Slowing dangerous bacteria may be more effective than killing them

Marcello Rubessa, Gabriel Popescu and Matthew B. Wheeler teamed up to produce 3-D images of live cattle embryos that could help determine embryo viability before in vitro fertilization in humans.

New microscope technique reveals internal structure of live embryos

Spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer

New handheld spectral analyzer uses smartphone to detect disease

Auinash Kalsotra Awarded MDA Grant for Studying Myotonic Dystrophy

Auinash Kalsotra Awarded MDA Grant for Studying Myotonic Dystrophy

$2.6 million to build versatile genetic toolkit for studying animal behavior

$2.6 million to build versatile genetic toolkit for studying animal behavior

Girls learn about plants inside and out at Pollen Power camp

Girls learn about plants inside and out at Pollen Power camp

Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds.

Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, autism in humans