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Researchers find protein that suppresses muscle repair in mice
Researchers report that a protein known to be important to protein synthesis also influences muscle regeneration and regrowth in an unexpected manner. The discovery, reported in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, could one day lead to new methods for treating disorders that result in muscle...
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Professor William Brieher receives LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Professor William Brieher has been selected by an awards committee to receive the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, alongside four other professors at Illinois. This honor grants the recipients $1,000 to support their teaching and research, while a one-time increment of $2,...
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Mutations in noncoding genes could play big role in regulating cancer, study finds
Professor Kannanganattu Prasanth led a team that found that certain genes that don’t code for proteins could play an important regulatory role in breast cancer.
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Researchers discover another role for cell protein
Discovery provides deeper insight into DNA and the fight against cancer.
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Meet MCB: Team Players
The Prasanths began a new life as postdoctoral researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. And today, as University of Illinois CDB professors, they continue to work side by side — literally. Their respective labs are next to each other in the Chemical and Life Sciences Building...
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Meet MCB: Neal Kitchen, PhD 2009
When Neal Kitchen joined the department of cell and developmental biology in 2002, his plan was to get a PhD and then find a job with a company that would pay for an MBA program. But just as he neared graduation, the financial crisis of 2007-2008 took the wind out of...
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UIUC alumni return for career development seminar series organized by graduate students
CDB graduate students wanted to open a discussion about career opportunities, particularly outside of academia. They formed a group that included students and postdocs in the summer of 2017, and to date, the group has hosted three alumni with very different and fascinating career paths.
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MCB Magazine: Small but Mighty; Tiny Organisms that Make a Big Impact
Our fall issue of the MCB magazine focuses on the diverse ways in which microbes affect our health.
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K.V. Prasanth Lab: Uncovering a novel role of a lncRNA during cell proliferation
The Prasanth lab has recently published a paper in Nucleic Acids Research titled “MIR100 host gene-encoded lncRNAs regulate cell cycle by modulating the interaction between HuR and its target mRNAs.”
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Researchers develop “cytological ruler” to build 3D map of human genome
In a new paper in the Journal of Cell Biology, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describe a new technique that can measure the position of every single gene in the nucleus to build a 3D picture of the genome’s organization.