Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research
Emily Scott
Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the IGB are still learning
Claire Benjamin
Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition.
Emily Scott
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death.
Claire Benjamin
Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis; however, most crops on the planet are plagued by a photosynthetic glitch, and to deal with it, evolved an energy-…
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
By enticing away the repressors dampening unexpressed, silent genes in Streptomyces bacteria, researchers at the University of Illinois have unlocked several large gene
Laura Schmitt
Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today.
Diana Yates
A new study links higher levels of several key nutrients in the blood with more efficient brain connectivity and performance on cognitive tests in older adults.
Lauren Quinn
In biomedical research, plant breeding, and countless other endeavors, geneticists are on the hunt for the specific genes responsible for disease susceptibility, yield, and…
Diana Yates
Move over, trap-jaw ants and mantis shrimp: There’s a faster appendage in town.
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.