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‘We are a target’: ASM under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown.
The American Society for Microbiology temporarily removed or altered content on its website related to diversity, equity, and inclusion...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 261 min read
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BMS: RT-ddPCR Assay for Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 Antigen-Specific Cellular Immune Response
Researchers led by YanShan Dai in Nonclinical Disposition and Bioanalysis at Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, explored Reverse...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 201 min read
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Princeton: Chimeric vs. Multiplicative Measures of Higher-Order Epistasis
The Raphael Lab at Princeton’s Department of Computer Science and a colleague from the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 182 min read
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Rutgers: Plasma-Activated Mist - A Promising Food Safety Technology
Foodborne illnesses linked to fresh produce are a significant public health concern. Traditional washing methods and sanitizers may not...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 151 min read
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Rutgers: A Promising Oral SARS-CoV-2 Antiviral
The quest for effective COVID-19 treatments has led to the development of broad-spectrum oral antivirals, focusing on conserved viral...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 142 min read
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Rowan: SUMOylation and HIV Latency-Associated Proteins in Microglia
Fergan Imbert and Dianne Langford at Rowan University (Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine) investigated the role of...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 132 min read
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Princeton: Flow-Dependent Bacterial Colonization
Princeton’s Zemer Gitai (Department of Molecular Biology) led an eclectic group of researchers from Princeton’s Departments of Physics,...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 122 min read
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Rutgers: DNA Flow in Extremophiles
Horizontal genetic transfer (HGT) is a significant driver of genomic novelty in all domains of life. While most studies focus on...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 62 min read
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Hackensack Meridian: Enhancing β-lactam Efficacy Against Mycobacterium abscessus.
Thomas Dick’s lab is focused on the discovery of new preclinical development compounds against tuberculosis and non-tuberculous...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 51 min read
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Rutgers: Targeting EF-Tu for MRSA Treatment
New antibiotics are urgently needed to treat drug-resistant bacterial pathogens. An eclectic group from Rutgers, NCATS , and Hackensack...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 41 min read
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Hackensack Meridian: CRISPR-Cas, anti-CRISPR proteins, and AMR genes in MDR Klebsiella pneumoniae’s success
Research in Barry Kreiswirth’s lab at the Center for Discovery & Innovation, Hackensack Meridian Health, focuses on unraveling the...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 22 min read
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Rutgers: The antidepressant drug sertraline repurposed?
George Carman is a Theobald Smith Society Past President (1997-1998) and Waksman Honorary Lecturer (1996). His lab at the Rutgers...
Ray Sullivan
Feb 12 min read
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Merck: New pneumococcal reference serum
With more than 100 pneumococcal serotypes in circulation, new pneumococcal conjugate vaccines containing serotypes are needed to...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 291 min read
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Rutgers: Novel melatonin-related receptor in Neurospora crassa.
Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone produced primarily by the pineal gland in the mammalian brain. It plays a crucial role in...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 291 min read
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Merck: Investigating the Active HIV Reservoir
Guoxin Wu’s group at Merck Research Labs in Rahway, NJ (designated as a “Milestones in Microbiology” site by ASM) developed an...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 262 min read
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Rutgers: Coronavirus N Gene Isoforms
Andrey Grigoriev’s Lab in the Department of Biology, Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University in Camden,...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 261 min read
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Princeton: Diffusion of Ribosome-sized Particles in E. coli
The Shaevitz Lab and the Gitai Lab at Princeton, in collaboration with the Zia Lab at the University of Missouri/Stanford, explored...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 262 min read
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Princeton: Iron Limitation and Membrane Remodeling in Roseobacter
Mo Seyedsayamdost ( Mo LAB ) in Princeton’s Dept. of Chemistry continues to develop the HiTES approach on agar (instead of liquid...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 241 min read
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Rowan: Yeast Mitochondrial mRNA & small subunit rRNA 3'-end processing
Dmitriy Markov The Markov Lab at Rowan University is focused on how mitochondrial gene expression is regulated in pathogenic yeast,...
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Jan 242 min read
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Princeton: How Myxococcus xanthus Fruiting Bodies Form
Fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus provides valuable insights into microbial life, its complexities, and its ecological...
Ray Sullivan
Jan 232 min read
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