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Unexpected similarity between honey bee and human social life

Alisa King-Klemperer

Bees and humans are about as different organisms as one can imagine.

Two IGB faculty members elected AAAS Fellows

Diana Yates

Six faculty members at Illinois, including two from IGB, have been elected 2020 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Three Illinois scientists rank among world's most influential

Diana Yates

Three faculty members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named to the 2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list, including two from IGB.…

Cassava may benefit from atmospheric change more than other crops

Claire Benjamin

Carbon dioxide fuels photosynthesis, the process by which plants generate their food in the form of carbohydrates.

$87M grant will help advance bioindustrial manufacturing

Kimberly Belser

An $87 million grant from the U.S.

Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP)


The Labor, Health, Equity, Action Project (LHEAP) is a team of interdisciplinary researchers from across University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, coalescing in the

Biologists shed light on how microbes evolve, affect hosts

Sean Bettam, University of Toronto

The era of COVID-19 and the need to constantly wash one's hands and sanitize things have brought microbes to new levels of scrutiny, particularly for their impact on an…

Acid-tolerant yeast model helps guide industrial organic acid production

Liam Jackson, Penn State

Microbes and other microscopic organisms could serve as sustainable “factories” to create many types of industrial materials because they naturally convert nutrients…

Lassogen raises $4.5M in seed round to develop novel therapeutics

Alisa King

Although small molecule drugs and antibodies continue to be the standard for cancer treatment, a new class of therapeutics — lasso peptides — may prove effective, especially…

30 years of experiments simulate future crop climate response

Claire Benjamin

Five years ago, the United Nations committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030. Since then, however, world hunger has continued to rise.

Nelson awarded $4.5M to study prevention, treatment of breast cancer

Alisa King

Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Erik Nelson (ACPP) has won a $4.5M Era of Hope Scholar Award from the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer…

Illinois study tracks evolution of SARS-CoV-2 virus mutations

Lauren Quinn

Since COVID-19 began its menacing march across Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and then across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has taken a “whatever works” strategy to ensure…