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. “...
2024-03-05 - LabRoots (Yorba Linda, Calif., March 5) – Illinois researchers have developed a novel approach to mapping brain behavior when someone is sick or healthy. “If you look at the brain chemically, it’s like a soup with a bunch of ingredients,” says Fan Lam, a professor of bioengineering at the U. of I. and co-author on the study. “Understanding the biochemistry of the brain, how it organizes...
2024-02-22 - Published in Interesting Engineering To address a longstanding hurdle in biomedical research, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a new nanoscale sensor. This innovative technology can monitor areas 1,000 times smaller than current technologies, particularly advancing the observation of ...- 2023-06-22 - By Jeni Bushman | Published on June 5, 2023 | Beckman Institute Music, mice, and microscopic imaging combine to provide new insight into the effects of environmental chemicals on hearing loss. Researchers at the Beckman...
2023-03-31 - Posted on News by Mechanical Science & Engineering In 2020, collaborators from across the University of Illinois campus received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a robotic...- 2023-03-17 - The UIUC Talkshow #31 with Juan David Campolargo and Aaryaman Patel - interviewing Dr. Gene Robinson Gene Robinson is the Director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology and Entomology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research uses bees to understand the mechanisms governing social behavior. In this...
2023-03-17 - from ACES News, by Lauren Quinn, March 7, 2023 URBANA, Ill. – The National Institutes of Health recently pledged $2.6 million towards the Center for C. elegans Anatomy, also known as...- 2023-01-11 - With help from the Champaign Public Library, Beckman researchers led by Professor Liz Stine-Morrow demonstrated that regular, engaged leisure reading can...
2023-01-11 - Beckman researchers Aron Barbey and Evan Anderson found that taking into account the features of the whole brain rather than focusing on individual regions or networks allows the most...- 2022-08-11 - Science News (Washington, D.C., Aug. 4) – "Scientists turned dead spiders into robots": In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers converted the corpses of wolf spiders into grippers that can manipulate objects. Rashid Bashir, a bioengineer at the U. of I. who wasn’t involved in the new study, says spiders can definitely offer lessons. “There’s a lot to be learned...
2022-02-10 - Beckman researchers use artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to distinguish healthy cells from injured cells. Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer treatment is working or a new type of medicine is effective....- 2022-01-31 - Mark Hauber, a professor of evolution, ecology, and environment, is one of 14 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty members to be elected 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hauber, the Harley Jones Van Cleave Professor of Host-Parasite Interactions, is a neuroethologist, behavioral ecologist and comparative psychologist whose work focuses on the...