NewsGlobal Food Initiative Fellows Tackle Food Insecurity’s Impact on Infectious Diseasesby Mitzi Baker-UC San Francisco News OfficeInitiative's goal is identifying and sharing best practices, and influencing policy issues from local to international related to food access
News$5.8 Million NIH Contract to Saint Louis University to Fund 'Omics' Researchby Saint Louis UniversityBiology-based field of study represents 'new frontier' for infectious diseases discovery
NewsFungi at Root of Plant Drugs that Can Help, or Harm, Sick Monarch Butterfliesby Emory UniversityStudy provides a more complete and complex picture of infectious disease ecology than before
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NewsDNA Duplicator Small Enough to Hold in Your Handby Vanderbilt UniversityA new method for controlling the DNA duplication process makes it possible to shrink the current desktop machines to handheld devices which could be used in the field to provide early diagnosis of a wide range of infectious diseases
NewsMicroscopy and VR Illuminate New Ways to Prevent and Treat Diseaseby Carnegie Mellon UniversityInnovation enables better visualization and interpretation of data from cell microscopy
NewsNew Way to Detect Human-Animal Diseases Tested in Lemursby Robin A. Smith-Duke University News OfficeRNA sequencing could help predict future outbreaks
NewsColor-Coded Chemistry Tests Get a Boostby Michigan Technological UniversityXiaohu Xia Wins CAREER Award for work involving color-coded testing of diseases
NewsResearchers Co-Author AHA's Guidelines on Sugar Intake Among Childrenby Emory UniversityEating foods high in added sugars throughout childhood is linked to the development of risk factors for heart disease
NewsResearchers Produce First Map of New York City Subway System Microbesby Weill Cornell Medical CollegeMost identifiable bacteria are harmless, but a few are linked to disease or are treatment-resistant.