Shaniqua Jennifer Bomberger, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, comments in Wired on a new study that found cold weather can impair the release of tiny extracellular vesicles in the nose lining that help combat viruses. Click HERE to read the full article.
Sam’s paper is titled “CF-Seq, an accessible web application for rapid re-analysis of cystic fibrosis pathogen RNA sequencing studies”. The web application developed by Sam and his collaborators in the Stanton laboratory in the Geisel School of Medicine allows users to view large and complex gene expression data sets at the click of a button. … Read more
FAIR-CF is a science communication project that aims to demonstrate how published biological data is far more than a static record of past scientific work. Just as the historical record – the diaries, newspapers, and other sources that recount human events – helps shape the way we think about human nature and the workings of … Read more
A $1 million gift from John Flatley and his wife, Kate, to a team of investigators at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will provide essential funding to develop new and more effective therapies for people with Cystic Fibrosis (CF)—an inherited disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs, digestive system, and other organs in the … Read more
This course may be attended in person, on the beautiful campus of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory near Bar Harbor Maine, (MDIBL). The course has been developed by Thomas Hampton and Bruce Stanton (Department of Microbiology and Immunology), who have directed Bioinformatics courses at MDIBL for a decade. This course is an updated and … Read more
Sharanya Sarkar is a graduate student in the Molecular and Cellular Biology program from Calcutta, India. Prior to Dartmouth, she served as the Operations Director of an NGO for 3 years and led several health camps for poverty-stricken people. A strong advocate of diversity and inclusion, Sharanya strives to build a community for international students … Read more
Frontiers in Microbiology is a leading journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the entire spectrum of microbiology.
Neff wrote “At the recent North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC), a key theme of the plenary sessions was the “path to a cure” for the 10% of CF patients who don’t benefit from CF modulators. For those patients who do benefit from modulators, many presenters also considered how better therapies can be developed. Among … Read more
A recent publication, “Let-7b-5p in vesicles secreted by human airway cells reduces biofilm formation and increases antibiotic sensitivity of P. aeruginosa,” has attracted attention from BioCentury, an outlet that covers translational research for the biopharma industry. The publication outlines that a naturally occurring human microRNA (let-7b) has the potential to treat chronic lung infection, including those caused by antibiotic … Read more