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Development of microsatellite markers for censusing of endangered rhinoceros
Alisa King-Klemperer
Today, the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is critically endangered, with fewer than 100 individuals surviving in Indonesia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo…
Piecing together the LanCL puzzle
Ananya Sen
Researchers from the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology in collaboration with scientists at Oxford University have published a paper in Cell reporting the…
Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago
Diana Yates
People up to age 40 living in economically depressed municipalities in the Greater Santiago, Chile, metropolitan area were three times more likely to die as a result of the…
IGB member elected to National Academy of Sciences
Lois Yoksoulian
Wilfred van der Donk (MMG), the Richard E. Heckert Endowed Chair in Chemistry and director of graduate studies in chemistry at Illinois, was elected to the National Academy of…
K-12 Shield Playbook offers guidance for reopening schools
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
A new resource is available to help guide teachers and school administrators as they reopen schools amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, assembled by researchers and experts at…
In pig brain development, nature beats nurture
Lauren Quinn
Before humans can benefit from new drug therapies and nutritional additives, scientists test their safety and efficacy in animals, typically mice and rats. But, as much as they…
COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity
Ahmed Elbanna
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have developed a new mathematical…
Ozone pollution harms maize crops, study finds
Ananya Sen
Although stratospheric ozone protects us by filtering out the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, tropospheric ozone is a harmful pollutant. A new study has shown that ozone in the…
New grant awarded to study genomic privacy attitudes
Ananya Sen
The concept of genomic privacy has recently become important due to the rise of sequencing services, which can inform people about their ancestry or genetic predispositions to…