New UI facility takes unified approach

A central idea behind the new Institute for Genomic Biology was to break down walls between disciplines and get University of Illinois researchers from various fields working together on big questions facing science and society.

So the people who designed the building, which will be formally opened in a ceremony on Thursday, decided to knock down some walls, literally – or rather, not to build them in the first place.

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