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Health + Wellness

Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Every person or animal that suffers from ill health and every pathogen that causes disease has its own genome. Research in this area examines how genome function directs the development of healthy bodies and how disorders disrupt that function.

Exploring the genomes of the microbes we live with also allows us to discover the molecular tools they use to aid or attack their hosts or to fight each other, knowledge that can act as a pathway to well-being.

Featured Stories

Bioengineering professor Shannon Sirk
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Exploring the Gut’s Potential to Treat Disease
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Allie Arp is the Communications Manager for the RIPE Project.
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IGB Profile: Allie Arp
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A new gene editing tool helps cells skip gene regions with problematic mutations. From left, graduate student Shraddha Shirguppe, Professor Pablo Perez-Pinera, and graduate student Angelo Miskalis led a team that applied the tool to reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease in mice. / Fred Zwicky
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Gene editing tool reduces Alzheimer’s plaque precursor in mice
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A newly established partnership between the OSF Healthcare Cancer Institute in Peoria, IL and the Cancer Center at Illinois, called Breakthrough and Advanced Treatment of (BEAT) Cancer Initiative, facilitates collaboration to improve cancer diagnostics, treatment, and prevention. Dr. Timothy Fan, fourth from left, is shown here at the BEAT Cancer kickoff, hosted by the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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Timothy Fan Awarded BEAT Cancer Grant to Mitigate Cancer Recurrence and Metastasis
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The Kellner Center for Neurogenomics, Behavior and Society
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Kellner Center launch: Interdisciplinary research to improve mental health
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From left: Paul Bonthuis, Howard Gritton, Yurii Vlasov, and Sihai Dave Zhao
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New NSF grant seeks to understand resilience to stress
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