Seeing is Believing! Diagnostics in the 21st Century

When a doctor is needed to diagnose and treat a patient for a possible disease, accuracy is essential! Powerful new diagnostic techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and genetic probes offer the promise of informative test results.

Tom Meade, professor of chemistry at Northwestern, will discuss how scientists are using chemicals (as reagents) to create the next generation of even more sensitive and more discriminating diagnostic tools than those currently available.

Come hear what’s in your future doctor’s ‘medicine bag’ - including new ways to test food and water for contamination, test our bodies for viruses, or identify genetic predisposition to certain diseases. If early and accurate detection is the formula for solving these and other public health problems, then the new diagnostic techniques of tomorrow must be developed in the chemistry labs of today.

Junior Science Cafe events are free and open to teens, their families and teachers. Pizza will be served.