Feb 17, 2022 | Cancer Center News
Left to right: Gabriel Popescu, Mark A. Anastasio, Chenfei Hu Treating cancer patients and developing biopharmaceutical drugs depends on making the distinction between a healthy live-cell and a sickly dead cell. The state of the cell can indicate whether a cancer...
Dec 8, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The Chemical Imaging and Structures Laboratory at the University of Illinois focuses on chemical imaging to improve our understanding of the pathology of many diseases, including cancer. Led by the Director of the Cancer Center at Illinois and founder...
Oct 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are quickly becoming ubiquitous for cancer researchers for their ability to efficiently process large quantities of data. This data can include multi-omic sequencing that contains information about the genome,...
Sep 29, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Photo of Saurabh Sinha. Urbana, Ill. – In bioinformatics, machine learning (ML) tools are used to solve problems in molecular biology and genetics. In healthy cells, genes — the carriers of hereditary information — are switched “on” or “off” to carry out specific...
Sep 27, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Representative computational PS-OCT images from cancer, adipose, and stroma tissue specimens, compared with the real PS-OCT images. Source: npj Digital Medicine Urbana, Ill. – Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University...
Sep 15, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Image of Mohammed El-Kebir. Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence is often employed in the field of cancer genomics, where bits of DNA sequencing data must be identified and further analyzed with statistical, evolutional, and probabilistic models. “Off-the-shelf”...
Sep 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – Artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms that teach computers to perform tasks, can efficiently identify patterns and relationships in large amounts of data. These abilities have made AI techniques and tools indispensable in the cancer research...
Jul 20, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director, and Georgina Cheng, Carle oncologist and surgeon Urbana, Ill. – Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) researchers, in collaboration with clinicians at Carle Foundation Hospital, are working together to improve colorectal cancer screening...
Jun 1, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – A newly developed laser source and microscope are helping researchers better understand and search for biomarkers indicative of cancer and other diseases, offering new promise for early detection and treatment plans. The study, co-authored by Cancer...
Apr 14, 2021 | Cancer Center News
Urbana, Ill. – The prevalence of health misinformation can influence public opinion, partially due to poor health literacy, and influence risk perception regarding treatments, screening, vaccinations, and cancer. Jessie Chin, assistant professor at the School of...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using a new application of an existing imaging technique that may help detect tumors in humans. The technique, super-resolution ultrasound localization microscopy, was used to visualize the distribution...