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New technologies launched the genomic era. Now, progress in genomic research depends on further innovations in the tools that allow us to probe, manipulate, and analyze biological molecules. Whether focused on software or hardware, biomaterials or microfluidics, DNA editors or molecular motors, our technological research pushes the boundaries of the physically possible and paves the way for future discovery.

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 Assistant Professor Hua Wang of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Clusters of nanoplastics (red arrows) bind to E. coli O157:H7.
The most effective way to harness the power of artificial intelligence when screening for breast cancer may be through collaboration with human radiologists — not by wholesale replacing them, says new research co-written by Mehmet Eren Ahsen, a professor of business administration at Illinois. Photo by Fred Zwicky
Soybean field trials took place for three years to observe developmental stages of different varieties. / Danny Gotarkar
A new gene editing tool helps cells skip gene regions with problematic mutations. From left, graduate student Shraddha Shirguppe, Professor Pablo Perez-Pinera, and graduate student Angelo Miskalis led a team that applied the tool to reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease in mice. / Fred Zwicky
Katherine Meacham-Hensold led work looking to improve the photorespiratory bypass of potato as a postdoctoral researcher in Don Ort’s lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.