Sounding the Death Knell on Cancer Cells
About 550,000 Americans die of cancer each year, or more than 1,500 people each day. The human body has 50 to 100 trillion cells. To maintain a balanced cell number in each organ, our body has a sophisticated program, called apoptosis, to get rid of unwanted cells.Over the past two decades, scientists such as Jialing Xiang have taken a closer look at the stepwise apoptotic process in normal cells and cancer cells. More >
Perfecting Porosity: Better living through holey chemistry
Professor of Chemistry M. Ishaque Khan speaks about his research in constructing porous solids in a Science News online article. More >
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Zhang Receives Grants to Study Foodborne Pathogens
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IIT Assistant Research Professor Co-Authors Cover Story in Chemical Physics Letters
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