School of Medicine research lays groundwork for diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine

RNA sequencing could help predict future outbreaks

Initiative's goal is identifying and sharing best practices, and influencing policy issues from local to international related to food access

"We've got an increasing number of unusually risky experiments, and we need to be more thoughtful and deliberate in how we oversee this work."

Discovery greatly expands the known distribution of the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, which has decimated bat populations in North America