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  • New CRISPR base-editing technology slows ALS progression in mice

    March 08, 2020
    Illinois researchers pictured, from left: graduate student Colin Lim, professor Thomas Gaj, graduate student Michael Gapinske, professor Pablo Perez-Pinera.
  • Avocado consumption improves focused attention

    March 06, 2020
    Graduate student Caitlyn Edwards and professor Naiman Khan hold avocados
  • Tasting no-calorie sweetener may affect insulin response

    February 10, 2020
    New research led by professor of food science and human nutrition M. Yanina Pepino, left, suggests that just tasting the artificial sweetener sucralose may affect an individual's response on glucose tolerance tests. Graduate student Clara Salame was a co-author of the study.
  • Advanced polymers help streamline water purification

    February 09, 2020
    Professor Xiao Su, left, graduate student Stephen Cotty, center, and postdoctoral researcher Kwiyong Kim have developed an energy-efficient device that selectively absorbs a highly toxic form of arsenic in water and converts it into a far less toxic form.
  • Team creates game-based virtual archaeology field school

    February 07, 2020
    Computer science graduate student and project manager Cameron Merrill explores a virtual cave excavation experience he helped create.
  • New compounds block master regulator of cancer growth, metastasis

    January 14, 2020
    Researchers including, from left, graduate student Valeria Sanabria Guillen, research scientist Sung Hoon Kim, researcher Kathy Carlson, chemistry professor John Katzenellenbogen, research specialist Yvonne Ziegler, and molecular and integrative physiology professor Benita Katzenellenbogen developed new drug agents to inhibit a pathway that contributes to cancer. The compounds killed cancer cells and reduced the growth of breast cancer tumors in mice.
  • Announcing Travel Grant Award Winners

    January 10, 2020
    Detail of Alma Mater sculpture showing a hand on hip.
  • Finding clarity in the fog

    January 06, 2020
    Graduate student Lucas Buccafusca looks for ways to improve the efficiency of wind farms. He had a key insight on a foggy day near a wind farm in central Illinois.
  • ICR doctoral student wins Grad College Dissertation Travel Grant

    January 05, 2020
    street in South Korea (left) doctoral student Jane Pyo (right)
  • Nanopores can identify the amino acids in proteins, the first step to sequencing

    January 03, 2020
    Graduate student Kumar Sarthak and physics professor Aleksei Aksimentiev were part of a research team that demonstrated that nanopores could sequence proteins, giving reserachers and clinicians insight into activity within a cell.
  • Dozens of potential new antibiotics discovered with free online app

    December 06, 2019
    A University of Illinois team developed a web app that can identify drug compounds that will accumulate in Gram-negative bacteria, overcoming a major hurdle in the development of new drugs to kill these dangerous pathogens. The team includes, from left, graduate student Emily Geddes, pathobiology professor Gee Lau, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother, postdoctoral researcher Hyang Yeon Lee, and postdoctoral researcher Erica Parker.
  • Structures near airports increase risk of airplane-goose collisions

    December 05, 2019
    From left, graduate student Ryan Askren, avian ecologist Michael Ward and their colleagues found that Canada geese are using man-made structures that bring them close to airport runways.
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