K.V. Prasanth lab discovers cancer connections with MALAT1

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Prasanth’s lab published several papers on a particular lncRNA called MALAT1, with significant findings showing an important link between cancer and MALAT1. They found that when MALAT1 is overexpressed in breast cells, the cells form tumors. Conversely, when it is depleted in breast cancer cells,...

RNA-Binding protein, Mov10, is key to both survival and brain function

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A study led by Dr. Geena Skariah, a recent Neuroscience graduate of the Ceman lab in Cell and Developmental Biology, and current postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan, revealed the importance of the protein Mov10 (Moloney leukemia virus 10) in neurological development in animals....

Science Image by Rajashekar Iyer, Gillette Lab, featured by NSF

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This image was part of the seventh annual Art of Science exhibit at the University of Illinois Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB). Learn more about the Art of Science program. (Date image taken: 2017; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: ) (Date image taken: 2017; date...

Social experience tweaks genome function behavior

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What changes in the brain of an animal when its behavior is altered by experience? Research at the University of Illinois led by Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Lisa Stubbs is working toward an answer to this question by focusing on the collective actions of genes. In a recent ...

Remembering Dr. Craig Mizzen

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Dr. Craig Mizzen, Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, passed away at his home on January 5, 2018, after a long and heroic battle with cancer. He was 61.

Merck researcher's career launched at the same time as CDB

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Alfred Reszka’s future was intertwined with the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology in ways he never could have predicted when he came to the University of Illinois in the 1980s. Reszka was one of the first graduate students in the new department, and the connections he made in CDB laid...