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Faculty Receive Three NSF Rapid Grants For COVID-19 Testing
Allie Arp
Three Nick Holonyak Jr., Micro and Nanotechnology Lab (HMNTL) and IGB faculty members have received NSF Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program grants, all of which aim to…
Nanostimulators boost stem cells for muscle repair
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
In regenerative medicine, an ideal treatment for patients whose muscles are damaged from lack of oxygen would be to invigorate them with an injection of their own stem cells.…
Thank you to our VTM team
IGB Communications
The IGB has been proud to help support the efforts to make COVID-19 testing more broadly available to those in need. Our recent efforts to create Viral Transport Medium (VTM)…
Spinal cord gives bio-bots walking rhythm
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Miniature biological robots are making greater strides than ever, thanks to the spinal cord directing their steps.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers…
Virus-infected honey bees more likely to gain entrance to healthy hives
Diana Yates
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli acute paralysis virus, a deadly…
Lisa Ainsworth of USDA-ARS elected to NAS
Claire Benjamin
Lisa Ainsworth (CABBI/GEGC), a research plant physiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service and adjunct professor of plant biology and crop sciences at the…
Inexpensive, portable detector identifies pathogens in minutes
LOIS YOKSOULIAN
Most viral test kits rely on labor- and time-intensive laboratory preparation and analysis techniques; for example, tests for the novel coronavirus can take days to detect the…
Pigs push forward quick solution for emergency ventilators
Lauren Quinn
When Matt Wheeler (RBTE) got the call on a Sunday morning in March – just two days after Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued his first stay-at-home order – he wasn’t expecting to launch…
U of I partners with Carle Health and State to increase COVID-19 testing
Back in early March, when the COVID-19 pandemic began shuttering businesses and schools across the United States, Chris Brooke wondered how he’d teach his classes online. As…