National Center for Supercomputing Applications

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a hub for researchers, industry, and students to address complex research problems in science and society. It’s home to Blue Waters, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Illinois scientists play key role in discovering new family of membrane transport protein

2026-02-24

The task: calculate every movement of every human in New York City and, based on those data, create a picture-perfect map of the city's skyline. Seem impossible?And yet, this resembles what two School of Molecular & Cellular Biology scientists recently accomplished while investigating E....

Study: Brain circuits for locomotion evolved long before appendages and skeletons

2023-04-26

The sea slug, Pleurobranchea californica

A new study finds parallels between the brain architecture that drives locomotion in sea slugs and that of more complex segmented creatures with jointed skeletons and appendages.

Scientists discover how antibiotics penetrate Gram-negative bacterial cell walls

2021-11-09

In a study reported in the journal Chemical Science, researchers developed a new method to determine how antibiotics with specific chemical properties thread their way through tiny pores in the otherwise impenetrable cell envelopes of Gram-negative bacteria.

Virus Simulation

2006-03-13

Klaus Schulten, professor of physics, chemistry, and biophysics and computational biology, and colleagues this week presented the first computer simulation of an entire life form, a virus. The full study will appear in the March issue of the journal Structure.

Illinois scientists play key role in discovering new family of membrane transport protein

Study: Brain circuits for locomotion evolved long before appendages and skeletons

Scientists discover how antibiotics penetrate Gram-negative bacterial cell walls

Virus Simulation

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