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K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new resource is available to help guide teachers and school administrators as they reopen schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, assembled by researchers and experts at…
In pig brain development, nature beats nurture
Lauren Quinn
Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats. But, as much as they…
COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity
Ahmed Elbanna
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new mathematical…
Ozone pollution harms maize crops, study finds
Ananya Sen
Although stratospheric ozone protects us by filtering out the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, tropospheric ozone is a harmful pollutant. A new study has shown that ozone in the…
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…