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Genetic Study Offers Insight into the Social Life of Bees
Most people have trouble telling them apart, but bumble bees, honey bees, stingless bees and solitary bees have home lives that are as different from one another as a monarch’s…
Taekjip Ha Wins Ho-Am Prize
Cellular Decision Making in Cancer Theme Leader Taekjip Ha has been awarded the 2011 Ho-Am Prize in Science by the Ho-Am Foundation in Korea. The Prize was established by Kun-…
New IGB Director Takes the Helm
Genomics of Neural and Behavioral Plascticity Theme Leader Gene E. Robinson has accepted the position of Interim Director of the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB), pending…
Team Overcomes Major Obstacle to Cellulosic Biofuel Production
A newly engineered yeast strain can simultaneously consume two types of sugar from plants to produce ethanol, researchers report. The sugars are glucose, a six-carbon sugar…
Microbiomes May Hold Key to Better Understanding of Preterm Birth
Microbiomes May Hold Key to Better Understanding of Preterm Birth—A team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mayo Clinic, and the J. Craig Venter…
New tool in the fight against tuberculosis
Researchers at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois have developed a way to harness the prodigious quantities of both genomic and metabolic data…
Brain Gene Expression Changes When Honey Bees Go the Distance
Tricking honey bees into thinking they have traveled long distance to find food alters gene expression in their brains, researchers report this month. Their study, in the…
Researchers Awarded $33.9 Million Grant to Study Enzyme Functions
A team of researchers led by University of Illinois biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt has received a five-year, $33.9 million grant from the National Institutes of…
IGB Theme Leader Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
University of Illinois professor William Metcalf has been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology, a distinction awarded to microbiologists who have made…