Health News from the Chronicles


lasers detect emerging flu strains

UGA researchers have received significant NIH support for development of new tools to detect virus strains of influenza: researchers are refining a nanotechnology-based method that uses laser light beams to more accurately predict emerging influenza strains-particularly strains with a risk of high…

Malaria expert to deliver Ritter lecture Jan. 29

UGA welcomes one of the world's most tireless researchers on malaria to present the annual Ritter Lecture: Alan Cowman, head of the Division of Infection and Immunity at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and a professor in the department of medical biology at the University of…

Newly discovered receptor may be key to new therapies for sleeping sickness

A discovery by UGA researchers may soon lead to new therapies for African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness: The scientists at UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases discovered a specific receptor tucked away in an organelle inside the disease-causing trypanosome parasite…

Discovery about little-studied protein holds promise for drug treatments

More evidence that the front lines of research on life-threatening diseases are right here on the UGA campus and in the Franklin College. Insightful new work from a research group lead by faculty member Natarajan Kannan of the Institute for Bioinformatics and the department of biochemistry and…
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Researchers find ancient mechanisms propel modern parasites

Finding cures and new treatments for diseases seems to be a unique eschelon of highly-informed scientific detective work, as this new finding published by Franklin College researchers demonstrates: Long ago, when life on Earth was in its infancy, a group of small single-celled algae propelled…

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