Hands-on Chemistry Course Has Students Taking on Rare Cancers
Monday, May 8, 2017 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
With graduation just around the corner, a few undergraduates finishing up a hands-on chemistry course will be taking very useful skills with them to the next stop on their career and education path. With robotic arms and moving trays to run automated chemical analyses, the class used advanced screening machines to quickly measure how effective dozens of cancer drugs are against cells found in a rare type of cancer called neurofibromatosis.