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May 24 | News
The unilateral efforts of a single country or region to
reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases could reduce exports, increase
imports
and lead to higher emissions elsewhere—what economists call "leakage."
Unilateral efforts could, however, work better if other sources of
energy were
used as substitutes, thereby creating "negative leakage," according to
research
by University of Illinois energy policy experts.
Apr 24 | News
Real-time, 3D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery, and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique to computationally correct for aberrations in optical tomography, bringing the future of medical imaging into focus.
Apr 23 | News
Through a combination of atomic-scale materials design and ultrafast measurements, researchers at the University of Illinois have revealed new insights about how heat flows across an interface between two materials. The researchers demonstrated that a single layer of atoms can disrupt or enhance heat flow across an interface.
Apr 22 | News
Sigma-Aldrich
Corporation and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have
entered into a licensing agreement through which Sigma-Aldrich will
offer two widely-used membrane scaffold proteins used in self-assembled
systems called Nanodiscs. These systems were invented to render soluble
normally insoluble protein targets.
Apr 20 | News
As biofuel production has increased—particularly ethanol
derived from corn—a hotly contested competition for feedstock supplies
has
emerged between the agricultural grain markets and biofuel refineries.
This
competition has sparked concern for the more fundamental issue of
allocating
limited farmland resources, which has far-reaching implications for food
security, energy security, and environmental sustainability.
Apr 13 | News
A
new study from the University of Illinois concludes that
learning-by-doing, stimulated by increased ethanol production, played an
important role in inducing technological progress in the corn ethanol
industry. It also suggests that biofuel policies, which induced ethanol
production beyond the free-market level, served to increase the
competitiveness of the industry over time.
Mar 19 | News
A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to
defeat
an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a
common "housekeeping" enzyme in a way that enables the enzyme to
recognize and disarm
the antibiotic.
Mar 15 | News
In the beginning—of the ribosome, the cell's protein-building
workbench—there
were ribonucleic acids, the molecules we call RNA that today perform a
host of
vital functions in cells. And according to a new analysis, even before
the
ribosome's many working parts were recruited for protein synthesis,
proteins
also were on the scene and interacting with RNA. This finding challenges
a
long-held hypothesis about the early evolution of life.
Mar 1 | News
With the support of a $3.2 million grant from the United States
Department
of Energy, researchers will take the first steps toward engineering two
new
oil-rich crops. They aim to boost the natural, oil-producing
capabilities of
sugarcane and sorghum, increase the crops' photosynthetic power and—in
the case
of sugarcane—enhance the plant's cold tolerance so that it can grow in
more
northerly climes.
Feb 28 | News
A chemically altered osteoporosis drug may be useful in fighting
malaria,
researchers report in a new study. Unlike similar compounds tested
against many
other parasitic protozoa, the drug readily crosses into the red blood
cells of
malaria-infected mice and kills the malaria parasite. The drug works at
very
low concentrations with no observed toxicity to the mouse.
