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New grant awarded to study genomic privacy attitudes
Ananya Sen
The concept of genomic privacy has recently become important due to the rise of sequencing services, which can inform people about their ancestry or genetic predispositions to…
New computational models to understand colon cancer
Ananya Sen
Although the development of secondary cancerous growths, called metastasis, is the primary cause of death in most cancers, the cellular changes that drive it are poorly…
Fast-acting, color-changing molecular probe senses when material about to fail
Lois Yoksoulian
Materials that contain special polymer molecules may someday be able to warn us when they are about to fail, researchers said. Engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-…
SHIELD Illinois and SHIELD CU expand innovative COVID-19 saliva-based testing
SHIELD Illinois and SHIELD CU expand innovative COVID-19 saliva-based testing to underserved K-12 schools in Illinois through a $1.4 million grant from The Rockefeller…
Vaccine study now open for student enrollment
Lizzie Roehrs
Students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who have not yet been vaccinated against COVID-19 can enroll in a study to help understand the effectiveness of vaccines…
Researchers hunt for drugs that keep HIV latent
Ananya Sen
When the human immunodeficiency virus infects cells, it can either exploit the cells to start making more copies of itself or remain dormant—a phenomenon called latency.…
Microscope that detects individual viruses could power rapid diagnostics
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A fast, low-cost technique to see and count viruses or proteins from a sample in real time, without any chemicals or dyes, could underpin a new class of devices for rapid…
Kleinmuntz Center Proof-of-Concept Program Now Open
The Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society (Kleinmuntz Center) is excited to continue to support innovation and commercialization taking place…
Not just CO2: Rising temps also alter photosynthesis in a changing climate
Diana Yates
Agricultural scientists who study climate change often focus on how increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels will affect crop yields. But rising temperatures are likely to…
Improved ag tech could help food security, climate change emergencies
Lancaster University
Scientists have proposed a range of technological options for sustainable, productive and resilient agriculture, providing multiple ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and…
'Hunker down' stress genes boosted in women in violent neighborhoods
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black…
Leading New Directions in Cancer Research: The Unanswered Black Box
Carly Kwiecinski, CCIL
Hyunjoon Kong (M-CELS leader/EIRH/RBTE), Robert W. Schafer professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, approaches cancer research from a perspective that…