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Artificial intelligence to run the chemical factories of the future
Lois Yoksoulian
A new proof-of-concept study details how an automated system driven by artificial intelligence can design, build, test and learn complex biochemical pathways to efficiently…
Smartphone diagnostics kit for infectious diseases
Kim Gudeman
Infectious diseases such as Zika and Dengue remain a top contributor to death and disability across the globe, according to the World Health Organization. Diagnosing and…
Online tool speeds response to elephant poaching by tracing ivory to source
Diana Yates
A new tool uses an interactive database of geographic and genetic information to help authorities quickly identify where the confiscated tusks of African elephants were…
LAS Dean's Distinguished Lecture with IGB Director
Samantha Boyle
The College of Liberal Arts & Sciences has established the LAS Dean’s Distinguished Lecture to provide wider opportunity for people to hear from faculty who are leaders in…
Kleinmuntz Center Inaugural Year
In its inaugural year of operation, the Catherine and Don Kleinmuntz Center for Genomics in Business and Society significantly enhanced and accelerated the broader impact of…
Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks
Diana Yates
By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of metabolism. Their study shows how metabolic networks –…
Study provides framework for 1 billion years of green plant evolution
Alan Flurry, University of Georgia, Athens, and Katie Willis, University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Gene sequences for more than 1100 plant species have been released by an international consortium of nearly 200 plant scientists, the culmination of a nine-year research…
Goldenfeld co-leads initiative tackling 'last great problem of classical physics'
Siv Schwink
The rich complexity of turbulence—with its wide range of length and time scales—poses a major challenge to the development of predictive models based on fluid dynamics. Now,…
University of Illinois announces Center for Digital Agriculture
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has announced the creation of the Center for Digital Agriculture (CDA), a new center that brings together agricultural producers…