Dr. J. Paul Robinson leads an effort to manufacture low-cost devices that would make possible affordable medical testing for victims of AIDS in Africa. Read more about how the Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories are promoting improved medical diagnostics at: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2006/060522.Robinson.spectral.html
Dr. Sophie Lelièvre and her team of veterinary school researchers, working with scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have found that fluorescence that illuminates a specific protein within a cell's nucleus may be a key to identifying cancer virulence and to developing individualized treatment. See full story at: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html3month/2006/060306.Lelievre.fluo.html
Dr. Amber Pond and a team of fellow Purdue veterinary scientists have discovered genetic and drug treatment methods to arrest the type of muscle atrophy often caused by muscle disuse as well as aging and diseases such as cancer. See full story at: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2006/060524.Pond.atrophy.html
