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-...

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...

From earth.com Alzheimer’s earliest biomarker: The role of PSD-95 Lead researcher, Professor Nien-Pei Tsai of the ...

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...

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....

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...