2024-08-21 - Shared from MCB's Online News The Endocrine Society today announced it has chosen 14 leading endocrinologists as winners...
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...
2024-07-12 - Brad Sutton, the technical director of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology’s Biomedical Imaging Center...
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...
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,...
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’...
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...
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...- 2024-04-22 - Beckman Institute News Stories Beckman researchers advance high-resolution ultrasound imaging with deep learning. The new...
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...
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 ...
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-...
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...
2024-03-08 - From earth.com Alzheimer’s earliest biomarker: The role of PSD-95 Lead researcher, Professor Nien-Pei Tsai of the ...
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...