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Ready for market: New process boosts clean, cost-efficient chemical production
Julie Wurth
Building on their success developing a cleaner way to make valuable organic acids, researchers from the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) have…
Summer EIP pitch contest winners chosen
Sarah Schwartz
At the IGB, innovation doesn’t take a break for summer! A group of postdoctoral and graduate student researchers recently completed the 10-week IGB Early Innovator Program (EIP…
Hua Wang Unveils Promising Targeting Technology for Cancer Immunotherapy
Chloe Zant
Material Science & Engineering professor Hua Wang (RBTE) perfectly encapsulates a multidisciplinary approach to fighting cancer: combining engineering, biology, and…
NSF reinvests in Molecule Maker Lab Institute, AI tools to solve chemistry’s challenges
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
With a new five-year, $15 million award, the U.S. National Science Foundation has renewed its support of the Molecule Maker Lab Institute, a research collaboration focused on…
Study identifies gene clusters in rhizobia linked to robust legume growth
Diana Yates
In a new study, scientists used nearly every tool in their toolkit — genomics, transcriptomics, greenhouse experiments and advanced statistical methods — to gain new insight…
New IGB theme aims to boost the bioeconomy through the revitalization of an ancient biological partnership
Claudia Lutz
Since the dawn of agriculture, our societies have been powered by the sunlight captured by plants and supplied by the chemical toolbox of microbes that tap into the resources…
African bioeconomy through the lens of biodiversity genomics and bioinformatics
Hawwa Gabier, Fatu Badiane Markey
The African BioGenome Project (AfricaBP) Open Institute has published a paper capturing its ambitious effort to advance genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa,…
New award from the Ono Pharma Foundation provides a boost to therapeutic discovery
Claudia Lutz
The adaptive immune system is a biological marvel, able to respond flexibly to a never-ending parade of pathogens. To produce effective germ-fighting antibodies, though, immune…
Flightpath Biosciences licenses microbiome-sparing antibiotic developed at Illinois
Diana Yates
Flightpath Biosciences, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of precision therapeutics targeting bacterial pathogens, has licensed a class of…
