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Princeton: Yeast Fermentation Enhanced by Light-Controlled Nanobody Inhibition
Transcriptional control is widely used in dynamic metabolic engineering, but it suffers from inherent time lags because existing...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 192 min read


Shionogi: US Hospital Burden of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB)
This retrospective cohort study undertaken by Shionogi, Inc., Florham Park, NJ , analyzed data from the PINC AI™ Database between January...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 181 min read


Merck: HDC-MALS for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Characterization
Invasive pneumococcal diseases remain a major global health concern. Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharides are key immunogenic...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 171 min read


Rutgers: HIV Hide and Seek
HIV persists in latently infected memory CD4+ T cells despite effective antiretroviral therapy, leading to rapid viral rebound upon...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 172 min read


IAVI: Lassa Virus Vaccine Development
Lassa fever is a serious zoonotic hemorrhagic disease caused by the Lassa virus, an enveloped RNA virus in the Arenaviridae family. It is...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 133 min read


HMH-CDI: Oral Triple Therapy for Mycobacterium abscessus
Researchers at the Center for Discovery & Innovation, Nutley, NJ, investigated a novel oral drug combination of tebipenem-avibactam,...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 121 min read


ASM Expands Open Access
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has achieved its sustainability target for the 2025 subscription year under the Subscribe to...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 111 min read


Princeton: Pathogen Immune-Escape Dynamics
Bjarke F. Nielsen and colleagues at Princeton introduce a mathematical framework to understand how pathogen evolution, specifically...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 41 min read


Merck: Pneumococcal Vaccination, a US Dynamic Transmission Model
Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, developed a dynamic transmission model to assess the impact of pneumococcal vaccination strategies in the United...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 31 min read


Merck: Ebola Vaccine with Durable Protection in Nonhuman Primates
Merck & Co. Rahway, NJ and colleagues at US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD...

Ray Sullivan
Apr 12 min read


Rowan: Postbiotic Metabolites Against Pseudomonas Infection
Treating Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infections are challenging due to biofilm formation and antibiotic resistance. This motivated...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 311 min read


Rutgers: Pgp2: A Unique Replication Initiator
The function of the Pgp2 protein encoded by the Chlamydia virulence plasmid remains unknown, despite the functions of most other...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 261 min read


Princeton: Host-Microbe Dynamics
Treatment options for human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) remain limited, and host telomerase has been implicated in the pathogenesis and...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 261 min read


St. Joe’s UMC: Pasteurella! Duck!
Pasteurella multocida is a gram-negative bacterium that commonly infects animals like cats, dogs, and birds and can spread to humans...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 221 min read


Rutgers: Fungicide Impact on Soil Microbiome and Disease Suppressiveness
Rutgers professor Ming-Yi Chou, with colleagues from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Cornell University, investigated the...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 211 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations to Geordan Stukey, PhD!
We congratulate Geordan Stukey on successfully defending his PhD dissertation at Rutgers University on March 18, 2025! His research has...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 194 min read


Rutgers & HMH-CDI: Inhibitors of Tuberculosis Menaquinone Biosynthesis
New drugs are needed to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. A large group of researchers from Rutgers Medical School and...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 191 min read


Rutgers: Congratulations Bill Errickson, PhD!
On March 17, 2025, Bill Errickson successfully defended his PhD dissertation, Physiological, Metabolic, and Molecular Regulation of...

Ray Sullivan
Mar 183 min read


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


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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