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Light-activated technique helps bring cell powerhouses back into balance

2022-08-03

University of Illinois biochemistry professor Kai Zhang and collaborators developed a technique using light to regulate mitochondria, the energy-producing powerhouses inside cells. The technique could address mitochondrial diseases and cancer.

Light can trigger key signaling pathway for embryonic development, cancer

2021-08-17

Blue light is illuminating new understanding of a key signaling pathway in embryo development, tissue maintenance, and cancer genesis.

Kai Zhang receives 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award to study the gut-brain axis

2021-06-23

Congratulations to Kai Zhang, professor of biochemistry, whose team was selected for a 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award. The project is entitled, “Engineering Enteric Neuron Activity to Enhance Antimicrobial Immunity in the Gut.”

Researchers identify mechanisms of controlling regeneration for two chromatin-remodeling complexes of Drosophila

2021-04-06

Illustrations - The fly Drosophila has two SWI/SNF nucleosome remodeling complexes, which control different aspects of tissue regeneration--growth and cell fate--as revealed by mutant phenotypes.

Rachel Smith-Bolton, a professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Illinois, leads an exciting research program on tissue regeneration. Her recent work uses Drosophila as a model to explore the effects of different chromatin modifiers on initiating, spatially controlling, and...

Light-activated technique helps bring cell powerhouses back into balance

Light can trigger key signaling pathway for embryonic development, cancer

Kai Zhang receives 2021 Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award to study the gut-brain axis

Researchers identify mechanisms of controlling regeneration for two chromatin-remodeling complexes of Drosophila

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