2024-08-21
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The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners of its prestigious ...
2024-07-29 - Article from ACES NEWS: A bad case of the flu during pregnancy can increase the risk for fetal neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder. But it’s not the virus itself doing the damage; it’s the mother’s immune response. ...
2024-07-12 - Brad Sutton, the technical director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Biomedical Imaging Center and a professor of bioengineering at the University of...
2024-06-27 - LAS alumna receives Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Keerthana Hogirala, who immigrated from India, prepares for a promising career Keerthana Hogirala was born in Tirupati, India. When she was 6 years old, her family moved to Michigan, and when she was 9 years old she moved to Illinois. The transition to the United States was difficult. Hogirala says that her parents...
2024-06-27 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By giving artificial intelligence simple associative learning rules based on the brain circuits that allow a sea slug to forage — and augmenting it with better episodic memory, like that of an octopus — scientists have built an AI that can navigate new environments, seek rewards, map landmarks and overcome obstacles. Reported in the journal Neurocomputing, the new approach...
2024-06-26 - Excerpt: Tinnitus problems, too Fatima Husain is a professor and neuroscientist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and studies how the brain processes sound. She said people with tinnitus may also struggle with cicada song. Tinnitus, a ringing or other noise in the ears, is a person’s perception of sound without an external source. “Some people say it sounds like buzzing, like...
2024-06-03 - AMPHIBIANS Earth.com (Telluride, Colo., May 29) — Scientists have long been intrigued by the toe-tapping behavior of amphibians. While this phenomenon is well-documented, its purpose has remained shrouded in mystery. Researchers at the U. of I. focused their attention on the dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius), a species known for its vibrant colors and, of course...
2024-05-17 - Researchers unearth exercise secrets from a biomolecular soup of synthetic innervated muscle tissue. It’s no secret that regular exercise is great for the body and the brain. Scientific studies have shown, time and time again, that physical activity has both short and...- 2024-04-22 - Beckman Institute News Stories Beckman researchers advance high-resolution ultrasound imaging with deep learning. The new method has higher imaging performance and processing speed, increased sensitivity for functional...
2024-04-22 - Parade While sugary treats are generally considered flat-out bad for your body and brain (sorry), there's one exception that comes up often: dark chocolate. Specifically, certain compounds in cocoa, which is the main ingredient in chocolate. Those compounds are called flavanols,...
2024-04-12 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors have been awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships. This year’s Illinois fellows are evolution, ecology and behavior professor Alison Bell and ...
2024-03-29 - Newsweek: What happens to our brains as we get older? Well, for the most part, they shrink—but not all of this shrinkage is inevitable. To find out how to slow, and even reverse, age-associated brain shrinkage, Newsweek spoke to Brad Sutton, a professor of bioengineering...
2024-03-25 - WILL-AM (Champaign, Ill., March 25) – Chemicals and other environmental exposures are affecting the neurodevelopment of babies and children, according to a study at Illinois. The Illinois Kids Development Study, follows pregnant people from their first trimester and measures their health and exposures to chemicals in consumer products. “We’re really focused on understanding what the risks are,...
2024-03-08 - From earth.com Alzheimer’s earliest biomarker: The role of PSD-95 Lead researcher, Professor Nien-Pei Tsai of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and his team have observed...
2024-03-06 - BIOLOGY BBC News (London, March 5) – Poison dart frogs appear to make a dancing movement with their back toes, not unlike tap dancing. Illinois researchers discovered the frogs tapped far more when food was present and that the number of taps depended on what type of surface the frog was sitting on. Scientists now believe this is because a surface like leaves carries vibrations much better. “...