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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