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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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“To have such high-impact work, there should be research teams that include people from different sides of the sciences: cancer expertise, computational expertise, biology, and now AI and analytics tools.”  ZEYNEP MADAK-ERDOGAN
African BioGenome Project proposed Digital Sequence Infrastructure roadmap to enable Africa implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Researchers genetically engineered the metabolic pathways in yeast to produce oxalic acid, which can be used to extract free rare earth elements from low-grade ore. Graphic courtesy Dan Herchek/LLNL
Diwakar Shukla, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering
A research group co-led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign predicts that a surprisingly adaptable species of marine archaea will play an important role in reshaping biodiversity in the planet’s oceans as the climate changes. Photo by Fred Zwicky