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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 4, 20252 min read


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 4, 20251 min read


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 2, 20253 min read


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 27, 20251 min read


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 27, 20251 min read


‘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 26, 20251 min read


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 20, 20251 min read


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 18, 20252 min read


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 15, 20251 min read


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 14, 20252 min read


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 13, 20252 min read


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 12, 20252 min read


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 6, 20252 min read


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 5, 20251 min read


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 4, 20251 min read


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 2, 20252 min read


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 1, 20252 min read


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 29, 20251 min read


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 29, 20251 min read


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 26, 20252 min read
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