2020-11-30 15:00:11 Promising lab results in quest to find naturally occurring anti-COVID therapies Details Published: 30 November 2020 There are promising new laboratory results in an award-winning effort to find naturally occurring compounds that are therapeutic against the COVID-19 … Read more » 2020-09-23 14:26:14 UAH research shows contract company’s products kill COVID surrogate virus Details Published: 23 September 2020 Contract testing done for North Carolina-based ESC Brands LLC at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has shown two of the company’s Zetrisil-based sanitizers are as effective as alcohol and … Read more » 2020-08-20 13:12:11 Safety first: Can masks really stop respiratory droplets spreading germs? Details Published: 20 August 2020 In an effort to show the effectiveness of mask wearing in preventing the spread of infectious diseases such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Payton Walker from WAFF 48 News joined our own Dr. Tanya Sysoeva for an … Read more » 2020-07-29 15:32:12 UAH-HudsonAlpha collaboration expands knowledge of how our cells work Details Published: 29 July 2020 In an effort to better understand how our cells work, scientists have studied the function of 208 proteins responsible for orchestrating the regulation genes in the human genome. A paper appearing in the journal Nature describes the collaborative … Read more » 2020-06-23 17:59:27 Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO cites UAH research collaboration in keynote speech Details Published: 23 June 2020 University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) research that identified 125 naturally occurring compounds with computational potential for efficacy against the COVID-19 virus was part of a keynote speech by Antonio Neri, president and CEO of Hewlett … Read more » 2020-06-18 14:28:39 Baudry Lab finds 125 naturally occurring compounds with potential against COVID-19 Details Published: 18 June 2020 The Baudry Lab at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has identified 125 naturally occurring compounds that have a computational potential for efficacy against the COVID-19 virus from the first batch of 50,000 rapidly assessed by a … Read more » 2020-04-21 12:20:38 Biology Newsletter April 2020 Details Published: 21 April 2020 Biology April Newsletter - Contents include a note from the Chair, recent achievements, presentations, published papers, and … Read more » 2020-03-23 14:00:19 UAH joins supercomputing effort to find drugs effective against COVID-19 Details Published: 23 March 2020 A professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at UAH is part of an effort led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee that applies the power of supercomputers to screen compounds for effectiveness against the pandemic COVID-19 … Read more » 2020-03-20 17:00:00 OK, we’re dealing with COVID-19, but what’s a virus in the first place? Details Published: 20 March 2020 Everybody knows by now that the United States and the world are in the grip of one of the dangerous coronaviruses called COVID-19, but what’s a virus and how can it make us feel ill? Why do our bodies react the way they do? Are viruses … Read more » 2020-02-18 20:06:35 Microbiologists from six southeastern states gather at UAH for the regional ASM conference Details Published: 18 February 2020 The University of Alabama in Huntsville will host the 105th Southeast Branch meeting of the American Society for Microbiology (SEB ASM) on February 21-23. The meeting will celebrate advances of microbiological research in states in the … Read more » 1234...67