Steven Blanke, Prashant Jain and Tamilselvam Batcha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Steven Blanke, Prashant Jain and Tamilselvam Batcha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Microbiology professor Steven Blanke (center), graduate student Prashant Jain (left) and postdoctoral researcher Tamilselvam Batcha found that a factor produced by the bacterium H. pylori directly activates an enzyme in host cells that has been associated with several types of cancer, including gastric cancer.

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