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Team finds gene that helps honey bees find flowers
Honey bees don’t start out knowing how to find flowers or even how to get around outside the hive.
Cradle turns smartphone into handheld biosensor
Researchers and physicians in the field could soon run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, medical diagnostics, food safety and more with their smartphones.
Illinois Biophysicists Measure Mechanism that Determines Fate of Living Cells
Cells in the human body do not function in isolation.
Enzyme Function Initiative Publishes Seminal Paper in PNAS
The Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI), one of the largest collaborative projects hosted at the IGB, has published a seminal paper in PNAS entitled "Prediction of function for…
Researchers Work to Put Stem Cells in Their Place
Hyunjoon Kong, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and member of the Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering research theme,
G. William Arends Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology
William Metcalf, Professor of Microbiology, leader of the Mining Microbial Genomes research theme and member of the EBI, was recently selected by the University of Illinois as…
Digging Down Below the Tree of Life
Originally published at www.astrobio.net
Study: Odd biochemistry yields lethal bacterial protein
While working out the structure of a cell-killing protein produced by some strains of the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis, researchers stumbled on a bit of unusual bioc
New Supercomputer to Aid Genomics Research
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) a highly parallel shared memory supercomputer named Ember.
Victor Jongeneel
Victor Jongeneel, HPCBio Director, has been appointed to the PubMed Central Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
First BGI-IGB Workshop Takes Place in Shenzen, China
As part of an international exchange of knowledge and ideas, the Institute for Genomic Biology and BGI (formerly known as the Beijing Genomics Institute) are engaging in a…