Robert Kazmierczak, a postdoctoral fellow in biological sciences at MU, recently published a paper showing that weekly injections of a particular Salmonella strain into genetically engineered mice with prostate cancer reduced the size of the tumors without serious side-effects. Photo credit: Alycia McGee
Abraham Eisenstark, the research director at the Cancer Research Center and professor emeritus of biological sciences at MU, began testing a collection of vials of Salmonella that had been sitting on a shelf for decades. Photo credit: Alycia McGee