Staphylococcus aureus is on the “most wanted list” for the National Institutes of Health, making it a major villain in the microbial world, said Robert B. Gennis, an MCB biochemistry professor. S. aureus also happens to be on the most wanted list in the lab of Thomas Kehl-Fie, MCB...
Jeremiah Heredia was the first student to join the Procko lab three- and-a-half years ago. Now, the fourth-year biochemistry Ph.D. candidate is an integral member of the group’s research team. Heredia spends most of his time analyzing the interactions between different conformations, or shapes, of...
New research conducted by biochemists at the University of Illinois has determined how damaged liver cells repair and restore themselves through a signal to return to an early stage of postnatal organ development. The findings are reported in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology.
Each year, at least 23,000 people die from infections caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Using computer modeling, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Sandia National Laboratories are...
The Zhang and Pan labs recently published a joint paper in Nanoscale titled “Carbon dots with induced surface oxidation permits imaging at single-particle level for intracellular studies.”
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....
