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2009-06-10 - A soil microbe that uses chemical warfare to fight off competitors employs an unusual chemical pathway in the manufacture of its arsenal, researchers report, making use of an enzyme that can do what no other enzyme is known to do: break a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step.

2009-05-18 - By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.

2009-04-20 - The state finals of the Illinois Science Olympiad will be held Saturday (April 25) at the University of Illinois. The event, which begins at 8 a.m., is part of a national competition in which middle and high school students compete in 23 events involving science concepts and engineering skills....

2009-04-15 - Two University of Illinois students have won prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year, and a third student at Illinois received honorable mention. Anthony Mazzotti, of Taylorville, Ill., and Derek Vardon, of Bolingbrook, Ill., will receive scholarships to help...

2009-04-15 - In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois have identified and visualized the signaling pathways in protein-RNA complexes that help set the genetic code in all organisms. The genetic code allows information stored in DNA to be translated into proteins. The researchers report their...

2008-12-31 - Dan Palacios, a student in the Burke Group , has been selected to receive the 2008 Robert M. Scarborough Award from the Division of Medicinal Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.

2008-12-31 - When Donna Korol arrived at the University of Illinois in 2000, the move, she says, hit her "like a breath of fresh air." The spirit of cooperation and support among faculty struck her as unique. The assistant professor of psychology had worked at three universities prior to the U of I, but in...

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2008-12-31 - Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a reduction in...

2008-12-31 - John Rogers, Founder Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Professor of Chemistry, has recently had his research into nanotube mesh featured in an article in Chemistry World. Read the article here.

2008-12-31 - The National Science Foundation announced this month that it is funding a new Physics Frontiers Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Center for the Physics of Living Cells is one of nine Physics Frontiers Centers in the U.S., and the second to explore the physics of...

2008-12-31 - Carbon nanotubes have a sound future in the electronics industry, say researchers who built the world’s first all-nanotube transistor radios to prove it.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers and Yonggang Huang have brought the possibility of stretchable, flexible sensors much closer to reality through their research in flexible silicon-based circuits.

2008-12-31 - John Rogers and his colleagues have published new findings on their research into creating flexible silicon solar cells. Read more in the October issue of The New York Times and...

2008-12-31 - Blood clots can save lives, staunching blood loss after injury, but they can also kill. Let loose in the bloodstream, a clot can cause a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism.