Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology
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Xuenan Mi receives the Graduate Student Excellence Award from the American Chemical Society
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First atom-level structure of packaged viral genome reveals new properties and dynamics
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Molecular mechanism of hearing highlighted in the first atomic-resolution picture of outer hair cell surface proteins
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Illinois scientists screening for gene expression fluctuations reveal latency-promoting agents of HIV
Expanded alphabet, precise sequencing make DNA the next data storage solution