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Program / Unit Description The Division of Infectious Diseases & International Medicine at the University of Minnesota is a globally recognized leader in clinical research and implementation scien...

Podcast Episode · The Life Lab by Death Clock · May 29 · 42m

New findings highlight fungal microfossils as useful markers in paleontological research.

Emerging fungal pathogens have detrimental impacts on crops, animals, and humans, however little is known about their transition to a pathogenic lifestyle. This study demonstrates that the transition ...

Phoebe Hsieh, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, begins her job search with five years of funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to help her run her own lab.

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Septins are a family of GTP-binding proteins found in many eukaryotic lineages. Although highly conserved throughout many eukaryotes, their functions vary across species. In Aspergillus fumigatus, the...

President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.”

Yeasts of the Cryptococcus genus, especially C. neoformans, can cause disease with unacceptably high mortality. This is due to delays in diagnostics, ineffective treatments, and an incomplete understa...

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

Peer review is the process that academic journals, conferences, and funding agencies use to ensure the quality of scholarly work before it is published, presented, or funded. Reviewers for academic jo...

The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional ...

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

Background Less than 0.5% of people living with HIV-1 are elite controllers (ECs)—individuals who maintain undetectable plasma viremia without antiretroviral therapy, despite having replication-compet...

T-cell responses in Valley fever are implicated in protective immune responses and hold promise for vaccines and diagnostics. Coccidioides peptides were us

During mold infection, epithelial-derived GM-CSF licenses neutrophil killing of fungal cells, leading to improved survival.