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After more than 15 years serving as Vice Provost for Research, Mary Lidstrom will step down from her position at the end of August, with plans to return full time to the faculty, concentrate on her research, and establish mentoring and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Lidstrom and her team in the Office of Research have made it their mission to support research by supporting researchers, including helping faculty navigate and make sense of the bureaucracy, paperwork and regulations that come along with their jobs.
The National Academy of Sciences will honor 20 individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in a wide range of fields spanning the physical, biological, and medical sciences. Joseph D.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted emergency use for two new coronavirus vaccines, one developed by the drug company Pfizer and the biotech company BioNTech and the other by the biotech company ModernaTX. Both are mRNA vaccines and have similar structure.
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- CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing of hepatitis B virus in chronically infected humanized mice.
Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development - Mar, 2021
Stone D, Long KR, Loprieno MA, De Silva Feelixge HS, Kenkel EJ, Liley RM, Rapp S, Roychoudhury P, Nguyen T, Stensland L, Colón-Thillet R, Klouser LM, Weber ND, Le C, Wagoner J, Goecker EA, Li AZ, Eichholz K, Corey L, Tyrrell DL, Greninger AL, Huang ML, Polyak SJ, Aubert M, Sagartz JE, Jerome KR - Pseudomonas aeruginosa aggregates in cystic fibrosis sputum produce exopolysaccharides that likely impede current therapies.
Cell reports - Feb, 2021
Jennings LK, Dreifus JE, Reichhardt C, Storek KM, Secor PR, Wozniak DJ, Hisert KB, Parsek MR - An interbacterial DNA deaminase toxin directly mutagenizes surviving target populations.
eLife - Jan, 2021
de Moraes MH, Hsu F, Huang D, Bosch DE, Zeng J, Radey MC, Simon N, Ledvina HE, Frick JP, Wiggins PA, Peterson SB, Mougous JD - Intra-host changes in Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus genomes in Ugandan adults with Kaposi sarcoma.
PLoS pathogens - Jan, 2021
Santiago JC, Goldman JD, Zhao H, Pankow AP, Okuku F, Schmitt MW, Chen LH, Hill CA, Casper C, Phipps WT, Mullins JI - Rapid adaptation to human protein kinase R by a unique genomic rearrangement in rhesus cytomegalovirus.
PLoS pathogens - Jan, 2021
Child SJ, Greninger AL, Geballe AP