Benita Katzenellenbogen, a professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and John Katzenellenbogen, professor of Chemistry at Illinois, led a study that discovered the stimulation of estrogen receptor beta in triple-negative breast cancers alters the activity of cancer-related genes and reduces the growth and metastasis of these breast cancers.
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In this study led by Professor Jonathan Sweedler, researchers used pancreatic islets from healthy human donors, prediabetic patients, and patients who had Type 2 diabetes to learn more about how pancreatic cells communicate with each other.
Illinois researchers in chemistry and chemical and biomolecular engineering have discovered and characterized new compounds that have the potential to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. The collaborative project utilized a laboratory automation system at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology to evaluate and assemble multiple synthetic gene pathways from hundreds of genes at once.
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Elizabeth P. Rogers, a former Department of Chemistry faculty member who retired in 1988 after 25 years of teaching general chemistry courses, has died at the age of 100.
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