ASU researchers address a primary cause of treatment failure for pancreatic cancer
As the second leading cause of death worldwide, cancer is a focal point in both clinical research and health care fields, but not all cancers are created equal.
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Synthetic biology sparks promise of medical, energy advances
If synthetic biology can “catch fire,” few areas of science and engineering could match it for having as dramatic an impact across such a broad a range of human needs. That’s the prediction from Karmella Haynes, an Arizona State University assistant professor of...
When aging goes wrong: Researchers try to identify causes of Alzheimer’s
In the search for treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, researchers are now looking for new approaches to understand how the progressive disease starts so they can better put a stop to it. David Brafman, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Arizona State...
Cancer Metastasis put under the Microscope
SBHSE students, Danh Truong and Supriya Nagarju, SBSHE Assistant Professor Mehdi Nikkhah and their University of Arizona collaborator Professor Ghassan Moueimne, have had their published article, Microfluidic Tumor-Vascular Model to Study Breast Cancer Cell Invasion...
