Research at Purdue

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April 14, 2017

Science for You: New treatments for HIV/AIDS and other illnesses

Arun Ghosh, the Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor in the departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, created the drug Darunavir, an antiretroviral medication that was the first...

April 14, 2017

Science for You: MRIs for medical diagnosis

Physicist Albert Overhauser (1925-2011) discovered what is now known as the Overhauser Effect, in which it is possible to line up, or polarize, nuclear spins at a much larger scale...

April 14, 2017

Science for You: Safer food packaging

World Food Prize winner Philip E. Nelson, professor emeritus of food science, is credited with developing technology to transport processed fruits and vegetables without product spoilage. The technology, known as aseptic...

April 14, 2017

Science for You: Defibrillators and blood pressure monitors

Les Geddes (1921-2009), the Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering, created innovations ranging from burn treatments to miniature defibrillators and ligament repair to tiny blood pressure monitors for premature...

April 10, 2017

Science for You: Doubling the efficiency of solar cells

A new material has been shown to have the capability to double the efficiency of solar cells by researchers at Purdue University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Conventional solar...

April 10, 2017

Does Mars have rings? Not right now, but maybe one day

3/20/2017 | As children, we learned about our solar system’s planets by certain characteristics — Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is...

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