[ ] A unique theory about how life arose on Earth may reveal clues to whether and where else it might have arisen in the universe. Does life exist elsewhere or is our planet unique,…
[ ] Gene Robinson, Director of the IGB, served as one of five witnesses who gave testimony at the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Research and Technology Hearing in…
[ ] Human glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most common, aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer, is notoriously difficult to study. Scientists have traditionally studied cancer…
[ ] Thanks to a new $2 million investment, a drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing healthy cells is on the road to human clinical trials. The compound, known as…
[ ] Nearly 30 girls attended the Institute for Genomic Biology’s weeklong summer camp that is devoted to the science of pollen Middle school girls learned that pollen does a lot more…
[ ] Half a millennium after Johannes Gutenberg printed the bible, researchers printed a 3D splint that saved the life of an infant born with severe tracheobronchomalacia, a birth…
[ ] Introductory chemistry students learn that oil and water repel each other. So do other hydrophobic substances, which carry no electric charge, and hydrophilic substances, which…
[ ] Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) Director Dr. Gene Robinson of the University of Illinois has been chosen to receive the iBIO® Institute’s 2013 iCON Innovator Award. The award…
[ ] Researchers report that they have found a direct genetic link between the remains of Native Americans who lived thousands of years ago and their living descendants. The team used…
[ ] Four researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) have been granted access to the Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, capable of…
[ ] Bo Wang, IGB Fellow in the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering theme, has received a Career Award at the Scientific Interface by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Designed to…
[ ] IGB Director Gene Robinson will lead efforts to plan conference and award $1M in seed grants. Gene Robinson, Director of the Institute for Genomic Biology, will chair the 2014…
[ ] The Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has awarded a $2 million grant to the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Under the leadership of…
[ ] As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, the Institute for Genomic Biology held the second in a series of learning and discussion workshops with BGI (formerly…