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Posted: September 27, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In Greek mythology, Zeus punishes the trickster Prometheus by chaining him to a rock and sending an eagle to eat a portion of his liver every day, in perpetuity. It was the right organ to target – the liver has the ability to regenerate itself, though not overnight nor for eternity.
New research conducted by biochemists at the...
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Posted: September 7, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Obesity is associated with a host of health problems, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure. According to a new study reported in the Journal of Physiology, obesity also diminishes a person’s ability to build muscle after engaging in resistance exercise.
“Several previous studies, including some from...
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Posted: September 7, 2018
Parisa Tabriz studied computer security as an undergraduate and graduate student at Illinois in the early-to-mid-2000s. Now she runs browser engineering for Google Chrome, the most used internet browser in the world.
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Parisa Tabriz takes the stage as the keynote speaker at one of the year’s most attended cybersecurity events—the annual Black Hat...
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Posted: August 20, 2018
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In a new study in cells, University of Illinois researchers have adapted CRISPR gene-editing technology to cause the cell’s internal machinery to skip over a small portion of a gene when transcribing it into a template for protein building. This gives researchers a way not only to eliminate a mutated gene sequence, but to...
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Posted: August 9, 2018
The University of Illinois hosted 10 undergraduate students this summer for a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU). The program, “Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging,” is credited with benefiting both the visiting undergraduate students and their Illinois graduate student mentors.
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), this...