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Study ties present-day Native American tribe to ancestors in San Francisco Bay Area
Diana Yates
A genomic study of Native peoples in the San Francisco Bay Area finds that eight present-day members of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe share ancestry with 12 individuals who lived in…
Collaborative RIPE team prove leaf width-biomass correlations in cowpea
Allie Arp
In a collaboration between RIPE researchers and cowpea breeders from Ahmadu Bello University, and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, the width of cowpea…
Large US firms have lower product diversity, study finds
Ananya Sen
Many aspects of economic productivity, including gross domestic product measurements, have been steadily rising over the past three decades. Although one would assume that the…
BBC’s Follow the Food to feature RIPE researcher’s Rock Dust project
Amanda Nguyen
On Saturday, March 12th, 2022, the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project’s Carl Bernacchi will be featured on an episode of Follow the Food on BBC World…
Reducing the carbon footprint through single-use plastics reuse
Alisa King-Klemperer
A staggering 5.5 million tons of single-use plastics are generated each year by science labs, negating 83% of the world’s recycled plastics. A team at Illinois was recently…
Circadian rhythm and the blood-brain barrier
Kyle Shelton
What is the best time of day to take your medications?
An interdisciplinary team received a grant to study the circadian dynamics of the blood-brain barrier, including…
CROPSR: A New Tool to Accelerate Genetic Discoveries
Julie Wurth
Commercially viable biofuel crops are vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and a new tool developed by the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (…
Study reveals new insights into bat echolocation
Ananya Sen
Bats are famous for using echolocation—a process where emitted sound waves bounce off objects, providing information about their size, distance, and the…
New set of chemical building blocks makes complex 3D molecules in a snap
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new set of molecular building blocks aims to make complex chemistry as simple and accessible as a toy construction kit.
Researchers at the University of Illinois…
'Molecular Velcro' enables tissues to sense, react to mechanical force
Lois Yoksoulian
The Velcro-like cellular proteins that hold cells and tissues together also perform critical functions when they experience increased tension. A new University of Illinois…
Bioengineering professors receive $4.8M to develop gene therapy for ALS
Huan Song
The NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded University of Illinois bioengineering professors Thomas Gaj (BSD) and Pablo Perez-Pinera (ACPP)…
Acceleration of cancer biomarker detection for point of care diagnostics
Alisa King-Klemperer
The detection and quantification of cancer-associated molecular biomarkers in body fluids, or liquid biopsies, prove minimally invasive in early cancer diagnostics. Researchers…