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The Biosystems Design theme engineers microorganisms and plants to help overcome hurdles in health and sustainability.

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Chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Huimin Zhao will lead a National Science Foundation iBioFoundry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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NSF funds new iBioFoundry at Illinois
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Illinois researchers have opened up the AI "black box" to gain valuable new insight about chemistry for solar energy applications. Pictured, from left: Professor Charles Schroeder, graduate students Changhyun Hwang and Seungjoo Yi, professor Ying Diao, professor Nick Jackson and graduate student Tiara Torres Flores.
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Breaking open the AI black box, team finds key chemistry for solar energy and beyond
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Electron transport, the energy-generating process inside living cells that enables photosynthesis and respiration, is enhanced in peptides with a collapsed, folded structure
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Folded peptides are more electrically conductive than unfolded peptides
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from left, Postdoc Yujie Yuan, Postdoc Zhengyi Zhang, CABBI Conversion Theme Leader Huimin Zhao (seated), Ph.D. Candidate Wesley Harrison, and Postdoc Maolin Li.
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New Additive Process Can Make Better—and Greener—High-Value Chemicals
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$14.8M Grant Supports Singapore Partnership on Precision Fermentation
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$14.8M Grant Supports Singapore Partnership on Precision Fermentation
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Molecule Maker Lab Institute unveils ugrades to AlphaSynthesis platform
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Molecule Maker Lab Institute unveils upgrades to AlphaSynthesis platform
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