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Researchers discover how enzymes ‘tie the knot’
Ananya Sen
Lasso peptides are natural products made by bacteria. Their unusual lasso shape endows them with remarkable stability, protecting them from extreme conditions. In a new study,…
Mobile bioengineering lab receives 2024 DEI award
Ananya Sen
The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology has awarded the Biomedical Engineering Journal Club for their mobile…
Team Science Leadership Program Kicks-off after Successful First Year
Katie Brady
The Team Science Leadership Program returned for its second year with a new 2024 faculty cohort and another series of workshops. The program aims to promote strong research…
Illinois launches new ‘Community Impact’ campaign
Andy Olson
Sharing the impact of Illinois research with a broad local audience is the goal of a new awareness campaign that launched September 9 in East Central Illinois. The ‘Community…
Team discovers naturally occurring DNA-protein hybrids
Diana Yates
Thanks to a serendipitous discovery and a lot of painstaking work, scientists can now build biohybrid molecules that combine the homing powers of DNA with the broad functional…
Report: Conscientiousness, not willpower, is a reliable predictor of success
Diana Yates
According to two psychologists, the field of psychological science has a problem with the concept of self-control. It has named self-control both a “trait” — a key facet of…
Novel nonsurgical sterilization methods developed for animals
Chris Beuoy
Surgeries to remove healthy reproductive organs are often a time drain for veterinarians and farmers. In the latter case, the process also causes animal suffering and economic…
CABBI Team Designs Efficient Bioenergy Crops That Need Less Water to Grow
Julie Wurth
Drought stress has long been a limiting factor for crop production around the world, a challenge exacerbated by climate change.
For more than a century, scientists have…
Illinois scientists to test modernized genetic model for optimized crop breeding
Megan Allen
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that aims to connect the dots between quantitative and molecular genetics and…
NSF funds new iBioFoundry at Illinois
Diana Yates
A newly funded U.S. National Science Foundation iBioFoundry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will build on more than a decade of research at the U.…
Breaking open the AI black box, team finds key chemistry for solar energy and beyond
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for researchers, but with a significant limitation: The inability to explain how it came to its decisions, a problem known as the “AI…
Drowning tomatoes for science
Diana Yates
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the…
