December 5, 2024
Chicago School Kid Discovers New Cancer-Fighting Compound
Bringing bird poop to school is usually frowned upon, but middle schoolers in Chicago are being celebrated as "bonafide biomedical scientists" after one student delivered some special goose droppings to their science club.
With the supervision of researchers from the University of Illinois, this student carefully isolated a bacterium from the goose poop that showed antibiotic activity.The study was published in ACS Omega. Middle School in Chicago, Ill. Photo Credit: Tan et al., ACS Omega, 2024 More details »
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