Members of the MCB community are making headlines around the world. Check out where they've been mentioned in the media.

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Meet the Microbiologist: Revenge of the Microbes

With Brenda Wilson and Brian Ho.
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WCIA News

Professor Patrick Sweeney shares his perspective on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy
A scientist in a white lab coat pipetting

WCIA News

Professor Erik Nelson speaks about pioneering cancer research that could curb tumor growth
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CBS Chicago

Professor Patrick Sweeney joins CBS Chicago to discuss the safety and efficacy of weight loss drugs like Ozempic
electron microscopy displaying the matrix of neural circuitry, muscles, blood vessels and other tissues in the octopus arm

The Transmitter

Professor Emeritus Rhanor Gillette discusses octopus arm anatomy, providing molecular insights
A red webinar slide titled "the Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis"

American Society for Microbiology

Microbiology Professor Brenda Wilson explores the antimicrobial resistance crisis
A man in a black suit giving an interview.

WCIA

MIP professor Erik Nelson discusses ovarian cancer and the Illinois Cancer Center
Cole Lewis

MCB alumnus featured in Forbes "30 Under 30"

Cole Lewis, BS, MCB, '16, was recently named to Forbes' 30 under 30 list for his work developing potentially game-changing cancer drugs with his company, Cloverleaf Bio.
Microbiology professor Brenda Wilson holds up her book, Revenge of the Microbes

USA Today

Not 'if' but 'when': Antibiotic resistance poses existential threat for modern medicine.
mosquito

Associated Press

The temperature range where malaria-carrying mosquitoes thrive is rising in elevation.

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NASA

NASA Selects Participants for One-Year Mars Analog Mission, including MCB alumnus 
Figure illustrating the dynamics of influenza virus co-infection

Nature: News & Views

When influenza viruses don’t play well with others
Illustration of an instrumented tissue mimic

The News-Gazette

UI to co-lead Zuckerberg-backed biomedical research hub
UIUC scientists leading the emerging pathogens project include, from left to right, Nicholas Wu, Beth Stadtmueller, Wilfred van der Donk, and Angad Mehta. Photo by Fred Zwicky, University of Illinois

The News-Gazette

UI researchers to look into how duck antibodies may help with next pandemic
Illustration by Alexander Glandien / Courtesy of Spectrum News

Spectrum News

The cloudy connection between fragile X and cancer
Teaching assistant stands in lab looking at monitor. She is masked and her shadow has a blue tone.

Gizmodo

School of MCB ranked in "Degrees of the Future 2022" list
From left, doctoral candidate Jennifer Walters and molecular and integrative physiology professor Hee Jung Chung pose for photo in the Chung Lab.

WCIA 3 News

U of I researchers discover compound with potent anti-seizure effects
Biochemistry professor Nicholas Wu stands for photo outside School of MCB.

Yahoo News

2021 Michelson Prizes Push New Frontiers in Human Immunology
People brace against the cold while waiting for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test as a winter cold front hits, in New York City, U.S., January 15, 2022. David “Dee” Delgado | Reuters

CNBC News

COVID test hacks: PCR and rapid antigen tests, throats vs. nose swabs
Professor Lori Raetzman (left) and PhD student Rachel Gonzalez. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Illinois Newsroom

A University of Illinois professor has discovered that chemical byproducts created when water is cleaned could impact the body’s ability to reproduce.
Drawings of scientists working in labs and taking notes. By Robert Neubecker

Science | AAAS

Our top essays by scientists in 2021, featuring MCB alumna Ananya Sen
Brian Shelton smiles outside on fall day. Sweatshirt reads First in Human. Credit: Amber Ford for New York Times

The New York Times

A Cure for Type 1 Diabetes? For One Man, It Seems to Have Worked.
Child stands against wall with measurements, raising his hand several inches above his head. Getty Images

BBC News

The brain sensor discovery behind humans getting taller, featuring research conducted by MCB professor Patrick Sweeney.
Anne Carpenter smiles for photo against multi-colored bright backdrop of microscopy imagery.

Quanta Magazine

Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights From Cell Images
Illinois researchers pose for photo holding model of molecule. Researchers include, from front left, research scientist Chengjian Mao and graduate students Matthew Boudreau, Darjan Duraki and Ji Eun Kim. In the back row, from left, are molecular and integrative physiology professor Erik Nelson, chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother and biochemistry professor David Shapiro. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer

Newsy

New Breast Cancer Treatment Could Be A Game Changer
Cancer cells (orange) co-cultured with bacteria (green): many tumours have their own microbiome, which might interact with microbes in other parts of the body. Credit: Straussman Lab/Weizmann Institute of Science

Nature

How gut bacteria could boost cancer treatments
Professors Pengfei Song and Daniel Llano pose with graduate student Qi You who aided in Song and Llano’s research. Song and Llano collaborated in developing ultrasound imaging tools that can help study Alzheimer’s disease.

Daily Illini

Illinois researchers’ development of imaging introduces new health applications in study of Alzheimer’s disease
Alternative splicing generates mRNA diversity to support postnatal liver development (model by Adit Kalsotra)

Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Neonatal-to-adult liver maturation depends on alternative splicing
A woman in a purple sweater and multicolored scarf

WIT Expert Witness Agency

Biotechnology expert Dr. Brenda Wilson assesses the life sciences landscape