CCIL Student Fighting and Researching Cancer

CCIL Student Fighting and Researching Cancer

Catherine Applegate, PhD candidate in Food Science and Human Nutrition (FSHN), researches the effects of diet and obesity on prostate cancer. During the last year of her degree, Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer – but she was determined not to let the disease...
CCIL Member Leads Graphene-Based Biosensor Study

CCIL Member Leads Graphene-Based Biosensor Study

Rashid Bashir, Dean of the Grainger College of Engineering and professor of bioengineering, recently published his team’s results in Nature Communications. The study uses crumpled graphene, which is highly sensitive to DNA, in a sensor to rapidly diagnose cancer...