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    Govindjee Receives Alumni Award
    2008-10-24 - Govindjee, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Plant Biology, recently received the LAS Alumni Achievement Award for his lifetime contributions to photosynthesis research. The annual award is given by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association to a select few...
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    Announcing Two New Endowed Chairs
    2008-10-21 - The School of Molecular and Cellular Biology has received a generous gift from George and Tamara Mitchell of Sidney, Illinois, to create two endowed chairs in the Department of Biochemistry.
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    Roger Adams Lab and Burrill Hall Renovation
    2008-10-14 - Roger Adams Laboratory and Burrill Hall are undergoing $12 million renovations to improve energy efficiency and upgrade their interiors. Once construction is finished, researchers will benefit from modern laboratory spaces and increased safety. The third and fourth floors of Roger Adams Laboratory...
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    Kranz Stops Staph Toxin
    2008-09-14 - Biochemistry professor David Kranz and his team have developed a treatment for antiobiotic resistant staph bacteria.
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    Feng in Chicago Tribune
    2008-07-22 - MIP professor Albert Feng and his team have discovered how a frog can selectively listen for its mate's calls.
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    UNDERGRADUATE LAB EXPERIENCE I: From Students to Scientists
    2008-07-22 - “I still remember the picture I took of my first electrophoresis gel,” said Andrew Smith, a senior in MCB. “I still have it.” Smith was not conducting research in a faculty lab when he ran his first gel, nor was he working as a biotechnology intern. He was attending his introductory, sophomore-year...
  • Biochemistry professor Emad Tajkhorshid, right, and biophysics graduate student Yi Wang have identified a key step in the cellular recycling of ATP that allows your body to produce enough of it to survive. ATP is the primary energy source for most cellular functions.
    ATP Binding
    2008-06-30 - Biochemist Emad Tajkorshid has created the first-ever simulation of a molecule binding to a protein.
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    MCB Selected for New 'Scope
    2008-06-22 - With the support of a major grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology has been selected as one of only a dozen laboratories worldwide to receive a prototype OMX Applied Precision microscopy system.
  • David Shapiro
    Team discovers new inhibitors of estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells
    2008-06-16 - Biochemistry professor David Shapiro led his team to discover compounds that inhibit estrogen-dependent breast cancer cells.
  • Mary Schuler, professor of entomology, biochemistry and plant biology, and postdoctoral researcher Sanjeewa Rupasinghe.
    Schuler Solves DDT Insecticide Resistance
    2008-06-16 - CDB professor Mary Schuler and her team discovered an enzyme that metabolizes DDT in malarial mosquitoes.
  • From left, graduate student Vijay Gupta and Steven Blanke, an Illinois professor of microbiology, have discovered how an H. pylori toxin gets into cells. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
    Novel toxin receptor discovered for ulcer-causing stomach pathogen
    2008-05-22 - Associate Professor Steven Blanke and his team have identified the receptor for a toxin produced by ulcer-causing bacteria.
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    Cell Talk
    2008-05-20 - Researchers at Illinois led by Claudio Grosman, professor of molecular and integrative physiology have painstakingly mapped the interior of a key component of the relay system that allows the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to get its message across. 
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    Professor Phillip A. Newmark
    2008-04-22 - On May 27th, Phillip A. Newmark, an associate professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB), was named a 2008 Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. With this award Dr. Newmark joins a select group of 56 biomedical scientists chosen from among 1,070 applications...
  • Andrew Belmont, left, and Igor Kireev, in the cell and developmental biology department, 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. Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
    Belmont Developes New Imaging Technique
    2008-04-16 - Andrew Belmont and his team developed a live-cell labeling technique for imaging chromatin at high resolution.
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    Meet MCB: Anne Carpenter
    2008-02-28 - Anne Carpenter, MCB alumna and Imaging Platform Director for the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, was featured in a half-hour television documentary, Bold Visions: Women in Science and Technology. The television special aired on WILL-TV March 16, and on other PBS networks.