MCB Highlights
New Technique Yields More Detailed Picture of Chromatin Structure
University of Illinois researchers have developed a technique for imaging cells under an electron microscope that yields a sharper image of the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound bundle of genetic material and proteins that makes up the chromosomes. Story...
Published Date: April 16, 2008
Grosman Published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
MIP professor Claudio Grosman and his lab's latest paper shed new light on an ion channel gating mechanism. Story...
Published Date: April 3, 2008
Cancer Research
David Kranz, the Phillip A. Sharp Professor of Biochemistry, has co-authored a study that reveals a new approach to treating therapy resistant cancers. Story...
Published Date: March 11, 2008
Spies' Lab Probes DNA Repair Enzyme
Biochemist Maria Spies and her team's latest paper show how an iron-sulfur cluster is essential to a DNA Helicase. Story...
Published Date: February 19, 2008
Fouke Studies Microbes in Rock
Associate professor of microbiology, Bruce Fouke, and his team have discovered how hot spring microbial records can aid in geological dating. Story...
Published Date: January 24, 2008
Tajkhorshid Published in Structure
Biochemist Emad Tajkhorshid's research on calcium's role in blood coagulation has been published in the latest issue of Structure. (PDF)
Published Date: January 17, 2008