CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By combining artificial intelligence with automated robotics and synthetic biology, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have dramatically improved performance ...

CABBI Postdoc Zhengyi Zhang works at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at Illinois. Using photocatalysis, Zhang and his co-authors developed a more cost-effective, eco-friendly way ...

From personalized tutoring to groundbreaking lab automation, AI is reshaping both how we study biology and how scientists make discoveries. Students now have access to interactive AI tutors, visual 3D ...

For decades, circular RNA was treated as little more than molecular background noise — stable fragments that accumulated in ...

NUDT5 enzyme acts as a molecular scaffold that maintains metabolic balance. Inside every cell, a finely tuned metabolic network determines when to build, recycle or stop producing essential molecules.

Artificial enzymes can fight the COVID-causing virus by selectively snipping apart its RNA genome, a new study suggests. Researchers say the technique may overcome key problems with previous ...

A new peer-reviewed study tested ChatGPT as a virtual assistant in an undergraduate biology lab, comparing its answers to those from graduate teaching assistants. Human TAs outperformed the AI in ...

Imagine trying to bake a cake without heat. You’ve got all the ingredients like flour, eggs and sugar, but nothing is happening. That’s what your body would be like without enzymes: potential but no ...