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Environmental Sentinels

Sensors to sniff out exposure
Higher Efficiency Solar Technology

Making solar energy more viable
Conquering Cancer

A bold strategy
Microbes, Spaceflight and Human Health

Germs in space
Energy from Waste

A win-win solution
Doc in a Box

Making medicine more predictive
Rapid Vaccine Discovery System

A need for speed
Pneumonia vaccine for newborns

Hope for millions
Cleaning Water with Nature

Safer drinking water
The Cheap Genome

Low cost DNA sequencing technologies
Solar-Powered Biofactory

Sun loving bacteria for biofuels and renewable products
Rare Energy Diseases that Affect Children

Broken metabolism
Comparative genomics

New tools answer big questions
The Best Defense

Safeguarding public health from nerve toxins
Tackling Tuberculosis

Strategies for new vaccine development
HIV/AIDS Research

Multi-pronged approach
Microscale Life Sciences

Worlds within a cell
Rapid Detection of Radiation Exposure

Smarter response

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Mineral studies advance antibacterial alternatives

Alternative approaches to medicine are stock-in-trade in the ASU laboratory of microbiologist Shelley Haydel.

So when ASU senior Jenny Koehl joined Haydel's investigative team seeking firsthand knowledge of how basic research is done, how drugs are tested and potential cures produced, she found it and much more.