MCB Highlights
New Technique Yields More Detailed Picture of Chromatin Structure
Published Date:April 16, 2008
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
Published Date:April 3, 2008
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
Published Date:March 11, 2008
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
Published Date:February 19, 2008
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
Published Date:January 24, 2008
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
Published Date:January 17, 2008
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