Researchers examining disease infection in bystander cells, which are next to infected cells but are not infected themselves, following antimicrobial treatment, were granted nearly $500,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to advance their work.
Collab Research Targets Bystander Cells in Disease Fight miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Laura-Isobel McCall, Ph.D., and Zhibo Yang, Ph.D., co-principal investigators and associate professors of chemistry and biochemistry in the Dodge Family College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma, have been awarded a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health for their project, "Novel single-cell mass spectrometry to assess the role of intracellular drug concentration and metabolism in antimicrobial treatment failure."
Researchers investigate potential treatment for Chagas disease outbreaknewstoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from outbreaknewstoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The answer is something infectious disease experts are working to uncover. As COVID-19 revealed, the same pathogen can have widely varying outcomes in different people.