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HMH-CDI: Luminescence Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Inhibitors
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need for efficient drug screening methods against live pathogenic viruses requiring high...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 121 min read
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Rutgers: Basil Bacterial Leaf Spot Resistance Screening
Basil is an important crop – an almost $3 billion US export market. The increasing prevalence and severity of bacterial leaf spot...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 111 min read
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Rutgers: Ice Worm ATP6 Extension Enhances Bacterial ATP Synthesis
Glacier ice worms, such as Mesenchytraeus solifugus , are the only known macroscopic organisms that reside permanently in ice, and they...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 101 min read
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Hackensack Meridian CDI: Caseum Surrogate Model for Nonreplicating M. tuberculosis
Jansy Sarathy’s Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation lab developed a novel in vitro model that mimics the...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 101 min read
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Rutgers: Congratulations to Kyle Skalenko, PhD!
Kyle S. Skalenko successfully defended his PhD dissertation on Thursday, March 6, 2025. He delivered an insightful and rigorous defense...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 103 min read
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Rutgers: Congratulations to Lauren Hall, PhD!
We congratulate our member and frequent symposium presenter, Lauren Hall, on successfully defending her PhD thesis at Rutgers University...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 73 min read
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Rutgers: Optimizing Tongue Swab Testing for TB
David Alland’s group at Rutgers Medical School identified the optimal tongue swab processing method for detecting Mycobacterium...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 51 min read
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Rutgers: Regulation of TCA Cycle by IsrR in Staphylococcus aureus
An eclectic group of scientists from Rutgers, University of Kansas, Ohio University, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Université...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 51 min read
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ASM Expresses Concern on Ongoing NIH Funding Disruption
Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 200 Independence Ave SW Washington, D.C. 20201 Dr. Matthew...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 42 min read
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Rutgers: Chikungunya and O'nyong-nyong Virus Seroprevalence in Senegal
Postdoc Prince Baffour Tonto in the Herrera Lab at the Rutgers Global Health Institute along with Senegalese colleagues investigated the...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 41 min read
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Rutgers: Congratulations Dr Zoe Narvaez!
On Thursday, February 27, 2025, Zoe Narvaez successfully defended her PhD thesis in the Department of Entomology at Rutgers University....

Ray Sullivan
Mar 23 min read
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ASM Statement on Overhead Cost Cuts
" ASM is greatly concerned by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcement that it is immediately capping facilities and...

Ray Sullivan
Feb 271 min read
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ASM Appalled by Fed Firings
" ASM is appalled by the systematic attempts by the Trump Administration to destroy the research infrastructure of the United States and...

Ray Sullivan
Feb 271 min read
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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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