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NewsUC Santa Barbara to lead $22M NSF-funded center on exceptional microbes
UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, and Cal Poly Pomona receive a six-year, $22 million grant to establish a first-of-its-kind BioFoundry that focuses on largely untapped and unexplored extreme microbes.
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NewsDisease X is a threat to free societies - so pandemic preparedness is vital this time round
The Covid-19 pandemic uncovered fracture lines in society that have the potential to destabilize free societies by internal and external groups using misinformation on social media, a new review warns.
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NewsNIH grant establishes UAB’s Global Research Resource for Human Tuberculosis
A $5.8m grant led by Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Africa Health Research Institute, or AHRI, in Durban, South Africa, will provide user-requested infected human lung tissue and analytical services to tuberculosis researchers worldwide.
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NewsResearchers granted $5m to study antibiotic-resistant wound infections in Ukraine
A new project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense partners emergency medicine faculty with research clinicians in Ukraine to launch a research platform for studying war-related wound infections and inform future clinical trials.
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NewsNew microbial fermentation manufacturing facility launched in Billingham
The UK’s life science sector has been bolstered by a £100m investment by FUJIFILM Diosynth Biotechnologies. This takes the form of a new microbial fermentation manufacturing facility in Billingham.
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NewsWHO: Cholera surges as response efforts hit by critical shortage of Oral Cholera Vaccines
Since the start of the year, more than 300,000 cases of cholera and 2,326 deaths have been recorded worldwide, as the World Health Organization warns of a critical shortage of oral vaccines.
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NewsScientists to investigate why men and women are hit by the flu differently
Turns out that there is a biological reason why women and men suffer viral infections like influenza differently – and a team of scientists are extending their research to better understand why and how to design better, possible sex-specific treatments.
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NewsMulti-disciplinary team awarded $3.9 million to study mixed fungal-bacterial infections
A multi-disciplinary team was recently awarded $3.9 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project aimed at unravelling intricate mysteries surrounding complex fungal-bacterial infections.
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NewsWHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of countries in Africa constitutes a public health emergency of international concern.
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NewsHospital awarded $12m to study best approach to treat mild pneumonia in young children
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, in partnership with University of Utah Health, has been approved for $12 million in research funding for a study that will compare two ways to use antibiotics in young children with mild pneumonia.
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NewsAMI appoints four new Trustees to Executive Committee
Applied Microbiology International has announced the appointment of four new trustees to its Executive Committee.
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NewsResearch aims to streamline the detection of foodborne viruses
A research team has received a USDA grant to develop rapid, portable, single-tube technology to help maintain safety of the food supply.
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NewsResearchers launch study into probiotics and prebiotics in bone health of older women
A clinical food trial will test whether a combination of probiotics and prebiotics will help in the management of bone health in women aged 60 years and above.
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NewsAmid Covid-19 summer wave, new WHO/Europe study confirms the lifesaving impact of vaccines
From the time of their introduction in December 2020 through to March 2023, COVID-19 vaccines reduced deaths due to the pandemic by at least 59%, saving more than 1.6 million lives in the WHO European Region.
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NewsWHO pays tribute to polio-eradication leader Aidan O’Leary
The Director-General General of the World Health Organization has led tributes following the sudden death of Aidan O’Leary, who was leading global efforts to eradicate polio. Geneva-based Aidan O’Leary, the director of the WHO’s Polio Eradication Programme since 2021, died suddenly while on a family holiday on ...
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NewsDisaster plant pathology: solutions to combat agricultural threats from disasters
Scientists have published a multidisciplinary perspective on current threats and solutions to plant health and food security, encompassing the risk from environmental factors such as climate change, while also including factors such as political instability and war.
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NewsMicrobes and their interactions are focus of major international meeting
One of the academic world’s largest international meetings addressing topics in microbial ecology, the 19th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME), will take place in Cape Town, South Africa in August
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NewsWHO convenes Emergency Committee to tackle mpox surge in Congo and neighbours
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the convening of an Emergency Committee under International Health Regulations to advise on whether the Africa outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern.
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NewsResearchers receive 9.5 million grant to study relationship between polyphenol intake, Alzheimer’s and the brain-gut-microbiome system
UCLA Health researchers, in collaboration with researchers from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, have received a $9.5 million award to study the effects of polyphenols on cognitive health and the brain-gut microbiome system.
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NewsFAU lands $1.3M NSF grant to boost dryland soil quality amid climate stressors
To enhance understanding of climate resistance of individual microbes and improve microbial remediations to reduce soil degradation under climate change, Florida Atlantic University has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
