How SNPs can be used to detect disease pathways

How SNPs can be used to detect disease pathways

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new computational tool that can identify pathways related to diseases, including breast and prostate cancer, using single-nucleotide polymorphisms. SNPs, which refer to mutations in a person’s...
CCIL Member Develops Single-Molecule Flow Technique

CCIL Member Develops Single-Molecule Flow Technique

Story originally from Bioengineering. Andrew Smith, associate professor of Bioengineering, is leading a team at Illinois collaborating with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. The study tags and identifies individual molecules as they pass through a flow cytometer using...