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Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: the snap-jaw
Diana Yates
Move over, trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimp: There’s a faster appendage in town. According to a new study, the Dracula ant, Mystrium camillae, can snap its mandibles at speeds…
Nobel Laureate Frances Arnold, former student Huimin Zhao celebrate award
Christine des Garennes
On Monday, December 10, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards one half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dr. Frances H. Arnold, Professor of Chemical Engineering,…
New laboratory system allows researchers to probe secret lives of queen bees
Claudia Lutz
More than a decade after the identification of colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon marked by widespread loss of honey bee colonies, scientists are still working to untangle…
The distance of microbial competitions shapes their community structures
Emily Scott
Inside the microbial communities that populate our world, microbes are fighting for their lives.
These tiny organisms are in the soil, in the oceans, and in the human…
Nine Illinois researchers rank among world’s most influential
Lois Yoksoulian
Nine faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list, including four from the…
Two IGB faculty elected AAAS Fellows
Diana Yates
Four Illinois professors have been elected 2018 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including two from the IGB.
Plant biology professors…
RIPE project receives additional $13 million
Claire Benjamin
This week, families across the U.S. will gather around Thanksgiving tables in a traditional celebration of the season’s bounty. By improving how key crops transform sunlight…
Jumping genes shed light on how advanced life may have emerged
Emily Scott
A previously unappreciated interaction in the genome turns out to have possibly been one of the driving forces in the emergence of advanced life, billions of years ago.
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Illinois team wins bronze at 2018 iGEM competition
Emily Scott
The Illinois iGEM team won a bronze medal at the 2018 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition for their work on the relationship between lactic acid…