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Group genomics drive aggression in honey bees
Diana Yates
Researchers often study the genomes of individual organisms to try to tease out the relationship between genes and behavior. A new study of Africanized honey bees reveals,…
Volunteers at Illinois produce supplies for 200,000 COVID-19 tests
Therese Pokorney and Dave Evensen
A collaborative effort at the University of Illinois to support COVID-19 testing is winding down, but not before it produced enough materials to support some 200,000…
Engineered immune cells recognize, attack solid-tumor cancer cells
Diana Yates
A method known as CAR-T therapy has been used successfully in patients with blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia. It modifies a patient’s own T-cells by adding a piece…
Pattern analysis of phylogenetic trees could reveal connections between evolution, ecology
Alisa King
In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species – the “family tree” of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution…
Thank you to our VTM team
IGB Communications
The IGB has been proud to help support the efforts to make COVID-19 testing more broadly available to those in need. Our recent efforts to create Viral Transport Medium (VTM)…
Illinois study identifies a key to soybean cyst nematode growth
Lauren Quinn
The soybean cyst nematode, one of the crop’s most destructive pests, isn’t like most of its wormy relatives. Whereas the vast majority of nematodes look like the microscopic…
Brendan Harley inducted into AIMBE College of Fellows
Christine des Garennes
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Dr. Brendan Harley, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular…
Neurobiologist Leslie Vosshall to give IGB Distinguished Public Lecture
Leslie Vosshall, Robin Chemers Neustein Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Behavior, and Director of the Kavli Neural Systems Institute at The Rockefeller…
Cystic fibrosis treatment uses 'molecular prosthetic' for lung protein
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
An approved drug normally used to treat fungal infections could also do the job of a protein channel that is missing or defective in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis,…