Scientists are racing to outsmart cancer Mohit Kumar Jolly was reading The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, a popular science book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, when he became impressed by the idea of fighting against cancer. His interest grew exponentially after he started seeing cancer patients every day at the MD Anderson […]
India is the world’s tuberculosis capital, accounting for 27 percent of the 10 million patients globally. Understanding how drug resistance emerges and improving vaccine efficacy are key to fighting this disease. Macrophage (red) engulfing tuberculosis bacteria (yellow), taken with ZEISS FE-SEM (Image courtesy: Volker Brinkmann) In 1890, Robert Koch believed he was going to […]
