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...
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....
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...- 2023-06-22 - By Jeni Bushman | Published on June 5, 2023 | Beckman Institute Music, mice, and microscopic imaging combine to provide new...
2023-03-31 - Posted on News by Mechanical Science & Engineering In 2020, collaborators from across the University of Illinois campus received a...- 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...
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...- 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...
- 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...
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...- 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,...
2022-01-14 - Aadeel Akhtar received his MS in Engineering and PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in December 2017. His dissertation, "Mechanisms for enabling closed-loop upper limb sensorimotor prosthetic control," was the culmination of his research on prosthetic limbs...
2021-12-02 - The University of Illinois has recently shared a new "Mental Health and Self Care" resource page. The university understands that many may need to find resources for their own struggles or for someone they know.