News Archive
Crops in silico 2.0: Project Extended
Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Crops in silico (Cis
Archaeologists find 200-year-old African DNA on tobacco pipe
MDOT SHA Communications
DNA found on tobacco pipe stems uncovered by archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) and Anne Arundel County from 2
Fatty acids rewire cells to promote obesity-related breast cancer
Sharita Forrest
Scientists at the University of Illinois have found that free fatty acids in the blood appear to boost proliferation and growth of breast cancer cells.
Donovan named to 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Stephanie Henry
Sharon Donovan (MME), a professor of nutrition and the Melissa M.
When temp drops, Siberian Miscanthus plants surpass main bioenergy variety
Claire Benjamin
Photosynthesis drives yields, but in cold conditions, this process that turns sunlight into biomass takes a hit.
Illinois researchers are first to count growth factors in single cells
Laura Schmitt
Whether healthy or diseased, human cells exhibit behaviors and processes that are largely dictated by growth factor molecules, which bind to receptors on the cells.
Launch of new Center for Genomics in Business and Society at IGB
Emily Scott
The Carl R.
Bees and Beekeeping Short Course
Bees and Beekeeping Short Course at the University of Illinois - May 21st, 2022
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In microbe populations, bioengineers find balance of opposing genomic forces
Claudia Lutz
Sergei Maslov, a professor of bioengineering and physics at the University of Illinois, sees a “universe in a grain of sand.” His research seeks to explore that universe by focu
A new way to do metabolic engineering
Emily Scott
A novel method developed by a group of IGB researchers could change the way metabolic engineering is done.
Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain-cancer patients
Diana Yates
A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial of patients with anapl