A research team led by chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler has developed a new technique to rapidly isolate and chemically characterize individual organelles within cells, revealing the chemical composition of organelles that control biological growth, development and disease.
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Beckman Institute researchers in chemistry professor Jefferson Chan's lab have developed a small-molecule probe that allows for rapid and non-invasive visualization of disease progression in Wilson’s disease and some metastatic cancers. As a diagnostic tool, this probe could reduce the need for invasive procedures, such as biopsies, to diagnose and monitor diseases.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology features student researcher Melissa Lucero, a fifth-year PhD student studying chemistry and chemical biology in the lab of chemistry professor Jefferson Chan, a Beckman Institute professor. In the Chan lab, Lucero focuses on developing chemical tools to study disease states and biological processes via in vivo molecular imaging
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- Researchers in the Department of Chemistry and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology used advanced computational methodologies to successfully simulate the capsid disassembly step of hepatitis B viral infection at an unprecedented atomic level.
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Kenneth L. Rinehart, a chemistry professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who was internationally known for his research on organic compounds involved in biological activity, died June 13, 2005 at his Urbana home after a long illness. He was 76. Rinehart’s research led to the development of a procedure involving mutasynthesis to prepare new antibiotics. He also led the chemistry department’s marine natural products program that collected samples from the ocean floor in the mangroves off Puerto Rico and elsewhere. In 1990, Rinehart isolated several extracts produced...
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