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Referential alarm calls increase vigilance in brood parasite hosts
Alisa King-Klemperer
Yellow warblers are hosts to brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, which rely on other species to raise their offspring. Warblers use referential “seet” calls to warn female…
Winners of the Mikashi Awards announced
Ananya Sen
The Proof-of-Concept Program, named the Mikashi Awards, is funded by the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society (Kleinmuntz Center) to support…
Analytical technique helps spot subtle differences in subcellular chemistry
Lois Yoksoulian
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now rapidly isolate and chemically characterize individual organelles within cells. The new technique tests the…
Deep-learning algorithm aims to accelerate protein engineering
Alisa King-Klemperer
Proteins are the molecular machines of all living cells and have been exploited for use in many applications, including therapeutics and industrial catalysts. To overcome the…
AI in Cancer Research: Applications of Computational Genomics
CCIL Communications Team
In bioinformatics, machine learning (ML) tools are used to solve problems in molecular biology and genetics. In healthy cells, genes — the carriers of hereditary information —…
Graduate students awarded for their innovative proposals
Ananya Sen
The first Young Innovator Program concluded in August 2021. It was a ten-week summer program that was designed to teach trainees how to become innovative leaders in their…
How SNPs can be used to detect disease pathways
Ananya Sen
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate…
AI in Cancer Research: Tumor Phylogenetics
CCIL Communications Team
Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical,…
Stem-specific promoters found for biofuel improvement targeting to stems of plants
Allie Arp
A team from the University of Illinois has discovered two plant stem-specific expression of genes, the promoters of which could potentially serve as a tool for increasing oil…
Improving biomaterials design for bone regeneration
Ananya Sen
Bone injuries in the face and skull—known as craniomaxillofacial defects—can be caused by sports injuries, vehicle accidents, or battlefield injuries. Repairing such defects is…
NSF grant awarded to develop materials for enhanced coral recruitment, survival
Alisa King-Klemperer
Coral reefs provide many benefits to society, including storm protection to shorelines, tourism, and supporting sport and commercial fisheries. They are also crucial for…
$25M tech grant lets Illinois researchers ‘talk’ to plants
Lauren Quinn
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today an investment of $25 million to launch the Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS). The center, a…