[ ] Honey bees don’t start out knowing how to find flowers or even how to get around outside the hive. Before they can forage, they must learn how to navigate a changing landscape and…
[ ] Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones. University of…
[ ] Cells in the human body do not function in isolation. Living cells rely on communication with their environment—neighboring cells and the surrounding matrix—to activate a wide…
[ ] The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI), one of the largest collaborative projects hosted at the IGB, has published a seminal paper in PNAS entitled "Prediction of function for the…
[ ] Hyunjoon Kong, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and member of the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering research theme, with Chemistry…
[ ] Gutgsell Endowed Professor Stephen P. Long to be member of UK’s National Academy of Science University of Illinois Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Crop Sciences and Plant Biology…
[ ] Saurabh Sinha, Associate Professor of Computer Science and member of the Gene Networks in Neural & Developmental Plasticity research theme, has been selected for the Dean's…
[ ] William Metcalf, Professor of Microbiology, leader of the Mining Microbial Genomes research theme and member of the EBI, was recently selected by the University of Illinois as the…
[ ] Graduate student Brandon Burkhart, chemical biology, who is a member of Professor Doug Mitchell's lab was recently awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science…
[ ] Originally published at www.astrobio.net A family tree unites a diverse group of individuals that all carry genetic vestiges from a single common ancestor at the base of the tree…
[ ] While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual biochemistry.…
[ ] The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) a highly parallel shared memory supercomputer named Ember. Originally…
[ ] Professor of microbiology and a founding member of the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology, Carl Woese was a giant among scientists. Best known for his discovery of Archaea…
[ ] As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, the Institute for Genomic Biology and BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute) are engaging in a series…
[ ] Victor Jongeneel, director of High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio), has been appointed to the PubMed Central Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH…
[ ] Carl R. Woese, who overturned one of the major dogmas of biology with the discovery of Archaea, the third domain of life, passed away following complications from pancreatic…
[ ] IGB Director Gene Robinson has been elected to the National Advisory Mental Health Council (NAMHC) of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The NAMHC advises the…
[ ] Researchers have shown that transplanting stem cells derived from normal mouse blood vessels into the hearts of mice that model the pathology associated with Duchenne muscular…
[ ] The Institute for Genomic Biology will once again be hosting the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING) Workshop. The workshop will take place from August 4-10…
[ ] Carl R. Woese, who overturned one of the major dogmas of biology with the discovery of Archaea, the third domain of life, passed away following complications from pancreatic…