University of Illinois entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum will r
Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plascticity Theme Leader Gene E.
Jian Ma, an assistant professor in bioengineering and a member of the Cellular Decision Making in Cancer Re
IGB Director Harris Lewin is a recipient of the 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. He shares the prize with James R. Cook, of Washington State University.
A newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume two types of sugar from plants to produce ethanol, researchers report.
While there are thousands of drugs on the market for human diseases, they only hit in the neighborhood of 200 targets, says Paul Hergenrother, professor of chemistry and a membe
Microbiomes May Hold Key to Better Understanding of Preterm Birth—A team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mayo Clinic, and the
New Way to Make Malaria Medicine Also First Step in Finding New Antibiotics—University of Illinois microbiology professor William Metcalf and his collaborators
Mixing and Matching Microbes for Food and Fuel—What do cows and termites have in common? “Nada, zip, zilch,” most people would say.
Overcoming mosquito defense systems—Each year, millions of people fall victim to insect-borne diseases-but Mary Schuler, an affiliate in the IGB's Genomic Ecolo
Most microbiologists sequence genes in order to determine what a given gene does.