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Illinois teams with Anheuser-Busch for bee research
Dave Evensen
There’s plenty of sweet irony in a new partnership between Illinois and St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, LLC, that will raise money for bee research at the university.
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Ainsworth to receive 2019 NAS Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences
Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA Agricultural Research Service, also an adjunct professor at Illinois and a member of the IGB Genomic Ecology of Global Change research theme, will…
Study of archaeal cells could teach us more about ourselves
Emily Scott
Forty-two years after Carl Woese defined archaea as the third domain of life, scientists at the IGB are still learning about these ancient organisms in ways that could help us…
Rising temperatures may safeguard crop nutrition as climate changes
Claire Benjamin
Recent research has shown that rising carbon dioxide levels will likely boost yields, but at the cost of nutrition. A new study in Plant Journal from the University of Illinois…
Researchers study bacterial immunity to understand infectious disease
Emily Scott
Patients with cystic fibrosis are often infected by pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacterium that infects the lungs and prevents breathing, often causing death.
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Scientists engineer shortcut for photosynthetic glitch, boost crop growth 40%
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-…
Unmuting large silent genes produces new molecules, potential drugs
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…
Bees and Beekeeping Short Course
Bees and Beekeeping Short Course at the University of Illinois - May 21st, 2022 Registration Instructions
You can register for the short course by following this link.
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Cell size and cell-cycle states play key decision-making role in HIV
Laura Schmitt
Thanks to the development of antiretroviral drugs, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is considered a manageable chronic disease today. However, if left undiagnosed or…