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Illinois Biophysicists Measure Mechanism that Determines Fate of Living Cells
Cells in the human body do not function in isolation. Living cells rely on communication with their environment—neighboring cells and the surrounding matrix—to activate a wide…
Enzyme Function Initiative Publishes Seminal Paper in PNAS
The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI), one of the largest collaborative projects hosted at the IGB, has published a seminal paper in PNAS entitled "Prediction of function for…
Forensic Genomics
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), with partial support from the Beckman Institute, launched the Interdisciplinary Innovation Initiative (In3) program to…
Researchers Work to Put Stem Cells in Their Place
Hyunjoon Kong, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and member of the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering research theme, with…
G. William Arends Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology
William Metcalf, Professor of Microbiology, leader of the Mining Microbial Genomes research theme and member of the EBI, was recently selected by the University of Illinois as…
Digging Down Below the Tree of Life
Originally published at www.astrobio.net
A family tree unites a diverse group of individuals that all carry genetic vestiges from a single common ancestor at the base of…
Study: Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein
While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual biochemistry…
New Supercomputer to Aid Genomics Research
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) a highly parallel shared memory supercomputer named Ember.…
Victor Jongeneel
Victor Jongeneel, HPCBio Director, has been appointed to the PubMed Central Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The committee advises the NIH on the…
First BGI-IGB Workshop Takes Place in Shenzen, China
As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, the Institute for Genomic Biology and BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute) are engaging in a…
Victor Jongeneel appointed to NIH PubMed Central Advisory Committee
Victor Jongeneel, director of High-Performance Biological Computing (HPCBio), has been appointed to the PubMed Central Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (…
Carl R. Woese: 1928 – 2012
Carl R. Woese, who overturned one of the major dogmas of biology with the discovery of Archaea, the third domain of life, passed away following complications from pancreatic…