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News2025 Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit to spotlight groundbreaking research
The 13th Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit, taking place March 15-16 in Washington, D.C., will reveal how cutting-edge research on gut microbiome science is being applied to clinical practice.
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NewsProfessor investigates how symbiotic groups - like corals and biofilms - can behave like single organisms
UNCG philosopher of biology Dr. Derek Skillings is the lead investigator on a new, three-year, $600,000 grant from the John Templeton Foundation for a study of the emergence and evolution of goal-directed behavior in collective entities.
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NewsSwRI receives $3 million NASA astrobiology grant to study microbial life in Alaska’s arctic sand dunes
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has received a three-year, $2,999,998 million grant from NASA to identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes in Alaska, under conditions similar to dune fields on early Mars and Saturn’s moon Titan. Source: Southwest Research Institute The Great Kobuk Sand ...
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NewsInhaled COVID vaccine study begins recruitment for phase-2 human trials
Researchers have started a phase-2 clinical trial on a next-generation, inhaled COVID-19 vaccine. Findings from the phase-1 trial indicate that the vaccine is more effective at inducing immune responses than traditional injected vaccines are.
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NewsThe Institut Pasteur joins the Stand Up for Science community
Echoing the Stand Up for Science Day initiated in the United States, scientists and academics in France are calling for mobilization actions in every city.
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NewsEradivir announces Phase 2 human challenge study of EV25 in healthy adults infected with influenza
Eradivir, a clinical-stage small molecule immunotherapy biotech company, announced it has begun a Phase 2 challenge study with its antiviral therapeutic, EV25.
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NewsScientist who deployed glowing stars to detect disease named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
The man who turned the science of glow-in-the-dark stars into ways to detect disease, Professor Richard Willson, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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NewsAMI member Christopher Stewart named as laureate in 2025 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Applied Microbiology International member Professor Christopher Stewart of Newcastle University has been named as one of three 2025 laureates in the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK.
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NewsRecommendations announced for influenza vaccine composition for the 2025-2026 northern hemisphere influenza season
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2025-2026 influenza season in the northern hemisphere.
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NewsResearcher measures microplastics’ massive changes in microbes
A new ecological research is underway to investigate the impact of microplastics on aquatic microbial communities in the Virginia Tech Duck Pond.
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NewsCambridge initiative to address risks of future engineered pandemics
Management strategies are initiated by University of Cambridge to address the challenges and preventive measures required in response to a potential engineered pandemic threat in the future.
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NewsMontana State scientist receives $2.8 million grant to advance Lyme disease research
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will allow a Montana State University research team to deepen explorations into a disease that is posing an increasing threat in the U.S. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by ticks.
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NewsExperts recommend mAb protection against RSV as standard care for all infants
While RSV poses a serious threat to the health of infants and young children, prophylactic mAbs offer safe and effective protection for an entire season, according to international health organizations.
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NewsDemocratic Republic of the Congo deepens investigation on cluster of illness and community deaths in Equateur province
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and experts from World Health Organization (WHO) are carrying out further investigations to determine the cause of another cluster of illness and community deaths in Equateur province.
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NewsMicrobiologist calls for urgent action on the danger of raw sewage in UK seas
A microbiologist has described how he contracted a type of bacterial pneumonia following a swim in the sea that was likely connected to an incident of sewage dumping in the area.
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NewsNew study calls for ethical framework to protect Indigenous genetic privacy in wastewater monitoring
Researchers have called for new ethical frameworks to protect Indigenous communities’ genetic privacy in the growing field of wastewater surveillance. The study examines how analysis of community wastewater raises significant privacy concerns for Indigenous populations.
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NewsKingdom of Saudi Arabia confirms US $500 million commitment to global polio eradication effort
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reaffirmed its US $500 million pledge to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in a signing event during the fourth Riyadh International Humanitarian Forum.
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NewsAMI member Christopher Stewart named as finalist in 2025 UK Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists
Applied Microbiology International member Dr Christopher Stewart of Newcastle University has been named as a finalist for the eighth Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. He is the 2023 winner of AMI’s WH Pierce Prize for microbiology.
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NewsMass polio vaccination campaign to continue in the Gaza Strip
The emergency polio outbreak response in the Gaza Strip is continuing, with a mass vaccination campaign scheduled from 22 to 26 February 2025. The novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) will be administered to over 591,000 children under 10 years of age.
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NewsProfessor awarded NSF grant to advance research on silica-scaled chrysophytes
A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists. The project will integrate findings from Professor Peter Siver’s lifelong study of silica-scaled chrysophytes, a group of protists found in freshwater environments.