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Insects Have Personalities Too, Research on Honey Bees Indicates
A new study in Science suggests that thrill-seeking is not limited to humans and other vertebrates.
Team discovers microbes speciating
Not that long ago in a hot spring in Kamchatka, Russia, two groups of genetically indistinguishable microbes parted ways.
Lemelson-MIT $30,000 Illinois Student Prize Finalist
The University of Illinois has always been an incubator for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Gene Robinson Named IGB Director
University of Illinois entomologist and neuroscientist Gene E.
Abbott and University of Illinois Establish Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory
ABBOTT PARK, Ill. and URBANA, Ill., Dec.
Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM) Request for Proposals
The Center for Nutrition, Learning, and Memory (CNLM), established in a partnership between Abbott and the University of Illinois, requests proposals in a Grand Challenge…
Team discovers how a cancer-causing bacterium spurs cell death
Researchers report they have figured out how the cancer-causing bacterium Helicobacter pylori attacks a cell’s energy infrastructure, sparking a series of events in the
Institute for Genomic Biology, School of Integrative Biology receive major NSF training grant
The National Science Foundation has awarded the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) and the School of Integrative Biology a $3.2 million training grant.
Two IGB Faculty Members named University Scholars
Paul Kenis and James Slauch have been named as University Scholars, a program created to recognize the university’s most talented teachers, scholars and researchers.
Defining “Renewability” a Challenge for Laws and Regulation
Jody Endres, the Senior Regulatory associate at the University of Illinois’ Energy Biosciences Institute, is the author of a recently published paper on key issues facing…
New sensors streamline detection of estrogenic compounds
Researchers have engineered new sensors that fluoresce in the presence of compounds that interact with estrogen receptors in human cells.
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowships Awarded
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has selected Nhat Trinh from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a 2011 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research…