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DOD Funding Awarded to Pursue Kidney Cancer Immunotherapy

Jonathan King

Hua Wang (RBTE) and Rohit Bhargava (CGD) in collaboration with clinical partners Dr. Kanishka Sircar and Dr. Jose Karam at MD Anderson, received a four-year, $1.1 million grant…

‘Drug Depot’: A Novel Technology for Prevention of Post-Surgical Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Recurrence

Jonathan King

Hua Wang (RBTE), professor of materials science and engineering, published new research in Materials Today Bio demonstrating the development of a novel technology to prevent…

IGB researchers awe Congress leaders with iBioFAB

Ananya Sen

The Computing Research Association, in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Carnegie Mellon University, hosted Members of Congress and…

Researchers enhance efficiency of CRISPR-Cas12a system using base Z

Shelby Lawson

CRISPR, (short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”), is a groundbreaking gene-editing tool that empowers scientists to finely manipulate DNA,…

IGB Profile - Tina Barbasch

Shelby Lawson

Decoding decisions of parental stickleback fish

Growing up in upstate New York, Tina Barbasch spent countless hours catching salamanders and frogs in her backyard woods…

Nerves prompt muscle to release factors that boost brain health

Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

Exercise prompts muscles to release molecular cargo that boosts brain cell function and connection, but the process is not well understood. New research from the…

Understanding the language of proteins

Stuart Robbins

Architecturally, Large Language Models are the basis for Generative AI popularized by ChatGPT from OpenAI, and similar products from Meta, Google, Microsoft, and C3.AI. …

Engineered increase in mesophyll conductance improves photosynthetic efficiency in field trial

RIPE Communications

It is possible to engineer increased mesophyll conductance in plants according to new research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mesophyll conductance plays a…

IGB faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Liz Ahlberg Touchstone

Five University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members, including three from the IGB, have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and…