Oct 8, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tissues and cells in the human body are subjected to a constant push and pull – strained by other cells, blood pressure and fluid flow, to name a few. The type and direction of the force on a cell alters gene expression by stretching different...
Aug 10, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Illinois researchers are responding to the need for personalized medicine for cancer patients by developing a groundbreaking innovation: the Oncopig cancer model. This new platform will improve and accelerate cancer detection and treatment techniques....
Aug 7, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When it comes to training neural circuits for tissue engineering or biomedical applications, a new study suggests a key parameter: Train them young. Techniques for training engineered neural circuits usually involve training them after the cells have...
Jul 29, 2020 | Cancer Center News
CCIL members and campus researchers are encouraged to attend the Tumor Engineering and Phenotyping (TEP) lab’s online webinar on Aug. 5 at 11 a.m. to learn more about the NanoString nCounter SPRINT Profiler, a shared resource for campus users available starting in...
Apr 2, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Rohit Bhargava, CCIL Director and professor of bioengineering, has recently published a paper, “Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Visualizes a Prognostic Extracellular Matrix-Related Signature in Breast Cancer,” in Scientific Reports. The study identified...
Mar 12, 2020 | Cancer Center News
Story originally from Molecular and Cellular Biology. Jongsook Kim Kemper, Professor of Molecular and Integrative physiology, and her colleagues Sangwon Byun (co-first author), Sunmi Seok (co-first author), Young Kim (research scientist), and Peter Yau have published...
Aug 22, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The gene-editing technology CRISPR is already making a huge difference across many scientific fields, but its importance could be about to grow even further – scientists have discovered a new technique that can leave out particular sections of a gene, essentially...
Jul 2, 2018 | Cancer Center News
DNA nanostructure flips lipids from one side of a lipid bilayer to the other more than 1,000 times as fast as natural enzymes called scramblases, researchers report (Nat. Commun. 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04821-5). Asymmetry in the lipid composition of the inner...
Mar 29, 2018 | Cancer Center News
The Computational Genomics workshop co-sponsored by the Cancer Center, Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology on Friday, March 2, 2018 was a great success. Over 70 participants from departments across campus attended to hear...
Jan 18, 2018 | Cancer Center News
Image of Saurabh Sinha. Saurabh Sinha, a professor of computer science, is among the top researchers in the field of bioinformatics whose work aligns with the campus vision to excel in health and medicine. He has worked on computational models of the genetics of...