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Illinois scientists play key role in discovering new family of membrane transport protein

2026-02-24

The task: calculate every movement of every human in New York City and, based on those data, create a picture-perfect map of the city's skyline. Seem impossible?And yet, this resembles what two School of Molecular & Cellular Biology scientists recently accomplished while investigating E....

Map-making neurons change even in familiar settings, study finds

2025-07-23

illustration of brain with a map within it

Neurobiologists at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, including Jason Climer in the School of Molecular & Cellular Biology, found the brain’s internal GPS changes each time mice navigate a...

New faculty member to further explore research linking brain receptor to increased height, early puberty

2021-11-11

Physician measures child's height at doctor's office.

For the past few decades, scientists have observed a trend of increased height and younger age of puberty onset in humans. Now, research outlining a new pathway in humans linking body fat to puberty onset and growth could provide an explanation as to why these changes are occurring. Their findings...

Scientists discover how antibiotics penetrate Gram-negative bacterial cell walls

2021-11-09

In a study reported in the journal Chemical Science, researchers developed a new method to determine how antibiotics with specific chemical properties thread their way through tiny pores in the otherwise impenetrable cell envelopes of Gram-negative bacteria.

Dr. Jin's lab solves atomic structure of stalled ribosome by cryoEM

2017-02-23

This is the first atomic structure of a ribosomal complex solved by cryoEM on the U of I campus.

Illinois scientists play key role in discovering new family of membrane transport protein

Map-making neurons change even in familiar settings, study finds

New faculty member to further explore research linking brain receptor to increased height, early puberty

Scientists discover how antibiotics penetrate Gram-negative bacterial cell walls

Dr. Jin's lab solves atomic structure of stalled ribosome by cryoEM

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