Tag Archive | Infectious Disease
The Big Picture for the Microbiome
UChicago physicians and scientists gathered recently for a seminar on how the microbiome affects our health.
BIO International Convention 2013 – Day 3
Day three of the BIO International Convention focused on an uncertain future for the biotech industry and looked ahead to new innovations in disease research.
BIO International Convention 2013 – Day 2
Day two of the BIO International Convention focused on how the private and public sectors can work together to solve global health challenges.
Humans and chimps share genetic strategy in battle against pathogens
The evolutionary process usually acts to select the single best adaptation to help an organism survive, but sometimes it also works to maintain genetic variation in a population to keep the species’ hereditary options open. For example, humans can carry two versions of the hemoglobin gene: a normal one, and a mutated one that distorts […]
Meet Your Roommates at Our New Hospital
The first patients at our new Center for Care and Discovery will move in on February 23, but they’ll have some roommates already. At the PLOS Public Health Perspectives blog, Beth Skwarecki writes about environmental microbiologist Jack Gilbert’s Hospital Microbiome Project to track the microbes growing in our new hospital: A microbial community has to […]
LabBook January 11, 2013
Genetic history lessons, a rockstar biologist and more in this week’s roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news.
LabBook January 4, 2013
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
Year in Review: UChicago Research 2012
Another year is almost in the books, and we’ve had another year of amazing research at the University of Chicago. Science Life like to thank all the physicians and scientists who shared their work, as well as all of the writers who contributed to the blog this year. We also want to extend special thanks […]
Exactly How Do You Collect 12,000 Microbial Samples From a Hospital?
Last month I wrote about the Hospital Microbiome project, Jack Gilbert’s ambitious project to catalog the bacterial species growing in the hospital before it opens and monitor how that environment changes after doctors and patients start interacting with it. Over the next two years, he and his team will be collecting more than 12,000 samples […]
LabBook December 7, 2012
Welcome to LabBook, our weekly roundup of University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences research news from around campus and the world wide web. Each Friday, LabBook will recap the week on the blog, link to news stories about our faculty and studies, and briefly summarize a handful of recent publications by our researchers. THIS […]
