Do you think cheerleaders are airheads? Think again. Many of the women you see dancing on the sidelines during games also have degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
At ASU, Bert Jacobs studies how to fight viruses with biological tools. But every summer, he travels to Africa to fight one virus--HIV--with a different weapon: education.
A soldier walks through a building in a war zone. Suddenly, an alarm begins going off in his pocket. He pulls out a sensor about the size of a deck of cards. The sensor has detected the disease-causing microbe anthrax. Okay, soldiers don't really have sensors this small and reliable yet. But scientists are working to create them.
It’s easy to see why scientists want to make vaccines for diseases like HIV and pneumonia. These illnesses kill a lot of people. Bert Jacobs, on the other hand, is developing a vaccine for a disease that no one ever catches—smallpox.
Twenty-five years after the first AIDS case was reported, there is still no cure or vaccine for this deadly infection. What makes this virus such a tricky target?
Roy Curtiss has a new idea for giving out vaccines. He wants people to gulp down the food-poisoning-causing bacterium Salmonella. What on Earth is he thinking?
Until the last century, smallpox killed one out of every ten people. Then Edward Jenner discovered he could prevent smallpox using a virus from a cow. His discovery of vaccines has saved millions of lives.
Do you think cheerleaders are airheads? Think again. Many of the women you see dancing on the sidelines during games also have degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
How does heat affect the human body, and how can you protect yourself in extreme heat?
At ASU, Bert Jacobs studies how to fight viruses with biological tools. But every summer, he travels to Africa to fight one virus--HIV--with a different weapon: education.
A soldier walks through a building in a war zone. Suddenly, an alarm begins going off in his pocket. He pulls out a sensor about the size of a deck of cards. The sensor has detected the disease-causing microbe anthrax. Okay, soldiers don't really have sensors this small and reliable yet. But scientists are working to create them.
It’s easy to see why scientists want to make vaccines for diseases like HIV and pneumonia. These illnesses kill a lot of people. Bert Jacobs, on the other hand, is developing a vaccine for a disease that no one ever catches—smallpox.
Imagine if you could get a vaccine by eating a banana or tomato. Charles Arntzen is trying to make that possible.
Until the last century, smallpox killed one out of every ten people. Then Edward Jenner discovered he could prevent smallpox using a virus from a cow. His discovery of vaccines has saved millions of lives.
