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[ ] Douglas Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Mining Microbial Genomes) received a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award from the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, for…

[ 2015-05 ] More than 500,000 people in the United States die each year of cancer-related causes. Now, emerging research has identified the mechanism behind one of the most common mutations…

[ 2015-05 ] Explaining the evolution of insect society, with sterile society members displaying extreme levels of altruism, has long been a major scientific challenge, dating back to Charles…

[ ] Derek Wildman, Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology (IGB Faculty) has received the International Federation of Placenta Associations (IFPA) Award in Placentology,…

[ ] Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Professor of Animal Sciences (Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity) received the Senior Faculty Award for excellence in research from the…

[ 2015-05 ] Digital memory versus analog: it’s a question that’s plagued music lovers for years. In biology, however, the focus is overwhelmingly digital: 0 or 1, on or off, genes expressed…

[ 2015-05 ] Maybe it’s not such a dog-eat-dog world after all. A clever combination of two different types of computer simulations enabled a group of Illinois researchers to uncover an…

[ 2015-05 ] As global issues become increasingly complex and urgent, many research enterprises are recognizing that scholars can benefit from collaborating with people outside of their field…

[ 2015-04 ] Update: This article, and recent genomic research, prompted a petition that calls for the reclassification of African elephants from one threatened species to two endangered…

[ 2015-04 ] In South American rainforests, researchers can tell one saddle-back tamarin from another, but what’s more difficult, is to see what the squirrel-sized monkeys are putting in their…

[ 2015-04 ] Physics professor Taekjip Ha has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest professional honors a scientist can garner. He is among 84 new members and 21…

[ ] Gene Robinson (Director) was appointed to the Board of Scientific Advisors (BSA) of the National Courts and Sciences Institute (NCSI), a judicially governed science and technology…

[ 2015-04 ] A recent piece of biomedical research has drawn extensively from an unexpected source, glacial moraines. Moraines form as glaciers advance across landscapes…

[ 2015-04 ] The ‘Art of Science: Images from the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology,’ now in its fifth year, is a meeting place between the University and our community as a whole,…

[ 2015-04 ] The switchgrass exhibited mosaic symptoms—splotchy, discolored leaves—characteristic of a viral infection, yet tested negative for known infections. Deep sequencing, a new…

[ 2015-04 ] The microbes could surrender to the harmless virus, but instead freeze in place, dormant, waiting for their potential predator to go away, according to a recent study in mBio.…

[ 2015-03 ] Using high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet…

[ 2015-03 ] A genetic study of papaya sex chromosomes reveals that the hermaphrodite version of the plant, which is of most use to growers, arose as a result of human selection, most likely…

[ 2015-03 ] To pack two meters of DNA into a microscopic cell, the string of genetic information must be wound extremely carefully into chromosomes. Surprisingly the DNA’s sequence causes it…

[ ] Douglas Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Chemistry (Mining Microbial Genomes) received the 2015 Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society Division of…