Shelby Lawson
Plants are diverse organisms capable of communication, self-defense, and forming cooperative partnerships with insects; yet these remarkable abilities are often overlooked in th
Trinity Challenge Communications
The Trinity Challenge recently announced four winning teams of its second competition aimed at tackling the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Shelby Lawson
We often think of species as separate and distinct, but sometimes they can interbreed and create hybrids.
Shelby Lawson
Rapid tests for COVID-19 have become a gold standard for virus testing, widely available at pharmacy chains and drug stores due to their low cost, speed, and ease of use.
Diana Yates
Scientists have identified a potential driver of aggressive lung cancer tumors in patients who live in areas with high levels of violent crime.
Diana Yates
By giving artificial intelligence simple associative learning rules based on the brain circuits that allow a sea slug to forage — and augmenting it with better epi
Ananya Sen
Researchers have consistently shown that prenatal exposure to Di (2-ethyhexyl) phthalate harms the reproductive system in male mice and causes fertility defects.
Tony Mancuso
Feeding an ever-growing human population is one of the major grand challenges we face — especially with the impact agriculture can have on climate change.
Ananya Sen
The landscape surrounding the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is unlike anything else in the United States.
Ananya Sen
Sarah Kim and Vanessa Quan have been selected for the Carl R. Woese Undergraduate Research Scholar Program.
Diana Yates
When scientists transplanted the gut microbes of aged mice into young “germ-free” mice — raised to have no gut microbes of their own — the recipient mice experienced an increase