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CABBI Team Designs Efficient Bioenergy Crops That Need Less Water to Grow
Julie Wurth
Drought stress has long been a limiting factor for crop production around the world, a challenge exacerbated by climate change.
For more than a century, scientists have…
Illinois scientists to test modernized genetic model for optimized crop breeding
Megan Allen
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that aims to connect the dots between quantitative and molecular genetics and…
NSF funds new iBioFoundry at Illinois
Diana Yates
A newly funded U.S. National Science Foundation iBioFoundry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will build on more than a decade of research at the U.…
Breaking open the AI black box, team finds key chemistry for solar energy and beyond
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for researchers, but with a significant limitation: The inability to explain how it came to its decisions, a problem known as the “AI…
Drowning tomatoes for science
Diana Yates
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the…
Scientists use evolution to bioengineer new pathways to sustainable energy, pharmaceuticals
Lois Yoksoulian
Using evolution as a guiding principle, researchers have successfully engineered bacteria-yeast hybrids to perform photosynthetic carbon assimilation, generate cellular energy…
Illinois scientists to revamp corn breeding with focus on climate resilience
Lauren Quinn
The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is investing in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that could expedite the development of climate-resilient…
Mohammed El-Kebir Hunts for Cancer’s Evolutionary Trees
Jonathan King
Mohammed El-Kebir (CAIM/IGOH) is an assistant professor of computer science researching cancer genomics, who investigates combinatorial optimization algorithms for problems in…
Ancient DNA reveals Indigenous dog lineages found at Jamestown, Virginia
Ananya Sen
Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing…
