In the battle against deadly diseases that adapt quickly to resist today’s top antibiotics, researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno have shown that stopping bacterial cells from communicating can actually prevent them from amassing their lethal armies.
Collin Borcik, a postdoctoral researcher in the Rienstra Lab, was recently awarded a year-long National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32).
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Kurt Weiss joined the Department of Biochemistry in March as the new manager of the Biochemistry Optical Core (BOC). The research core is housed in the biochemistry department but is a resource for all campus researchers who are interested in using microscopy techniques in their work.
Nearly seventy years after the discovery of Amphotericin B, scientists are still learning from this enigmatic drug. New results challenge a long-standing paradigm for the drug's mechanism of action and suggest new avenues for drug development.