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Colorectal cancer in context: How food environment affects the gut

Lauren Quinn

Colorectal cancer is expected to claim more than

Study investigates the effects of DiNP on the colon

Ananya Sen

Phthalates are commonly used to make products—including artificial leather, footwear, plastic food packaging, and personal care products—more flexible or stable.

Team Developing Cancer Drug Delivery Method with Bioengineered Microbes

CCIL Communications Team

An Illinois research team is developing a method of producing and delivering monoclonal antibody treatments for breast cancer through commensal microbes in the gut.

Decoding the molecular clock that controls neurogenesis in the visual center of Drosophila

Ananya Sen

The nervous system is made up of diverse cells that arise from progenitors in a specific time-dependent pattern.

Illinois General Assembly Recognizes IGB for 15 Years of Scientific Contribution


The Illinois General Assembly officially recognized the Carl R.

Treatment of liver metastases in breast cancer patients improved by low-carb diets

CCIL Communications Team

A new study by Zeynep Madak-Erdogan (CGD/EIRH/GSP) Associate Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition and Cancer Center at Illinois Education Program Leader, and her t

15 Years of IGB: The RIPE Project

Ananya Sen

In honor of the IGB's anniversary, we're revisiting some of the history of our institute over the past 15 years with a series of articles highlighting IGB people, projects,

New tests and treatments developed in mice for pulmonary fibrosis

Lauren Quinn

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mie University in Japan have developed monoclonal antibodies that prevent lung cell death in mouse models for id