News Archive
Long receives honorary doctorate from University of Essex
Allie Arp
“I have been lucky enough to receive a few awards throughout my career, but none is more special to me than this.”
Joseph Fernandez
Ananya Sen
Joseph Fernandez is a postdoctoral researcher at the Genomics and Eco-evolution of Multi-Scale Symbioses Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana
Team develops all-species coronavirus test
Diana Yates
In an advance that will help scientists track coronavirus variants in wild and domesticated animals, researchers report they can now detect exposure to the SARS-Co
New insights into the structural changes associated with osteoarthritis
Ananya Sen
Osteoarthritis is the most common degenerative joint disease, affecting 22% of adults over 40 globally.
Are honey bees, wild bees still in trouble?
Diana Yates
Potential breakthrough treatment for cystic fibrosis enters clinical trial
Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Clinical testing is underway for a potentially groundbreaking new treatment for cystic fibrosis.
New drug delivery method can reverse senescence of stem cells
Shelby Lawson
As we age, our bodies change and degenerate over time in a process called senescence.
Ratna Karatgi
Shelby Lawson
Investigating mechanisms behind variation in color of killifish
Illinois researchers, Native American tribes working together to curate, increase access to oral histories
Jodi Heckel
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are working with Native American tribes across the country to digitize oral histories and ethnographic materials colle
Team finds reliable predictor of plant species persistence, coexistence
Diana Yates
Like many ecological scientists, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign plant biology professor James O’Dwyer (CAIM) has spent much of his career searching for ways to measure
Honey bee colony aggression linked to gene regulatory networks
Shelby Lawson
Collective behaviors are present across many different animal groups: schools of fish swimming in a swirling pattern together, large flocks of birds migrating through the night,
New initiative to improve forensic science practices in Illinois
Ananya Sen
The landscape of forensic DNA has shifted in recent years to not only include different types of genetic data, but also expand how DNA can help improve the science and the inves
