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Dr. Baudry

Promising lab results in quest to find naturally occurring anti-COVID therapies

Nov 30, 2020

There are promising new laboratory results in an award-winning effort to find naturally occurring compounds that are therapeutic against the COVID-19 virus. ...


Dr. Debra Moriarity

UAH research shows contract company’s products kill COVID surrogate virus

Sep 23, 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 a...


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Safety first: Can masks really stop respiratory droplets spreading germs?

Aug 20, 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 experiment. ...


Dr. Eric Mendenhall at lab

UAH-HudsonAlpha collaboration expands knowledge of how our cells work

Jul 29, 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 e...


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Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO cites UAH research collaboration in keynote speech

Jun 23, 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 Pac...


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Baudry Lab finds 125 naturally occurring compounds with potential against COVID-19

Jun 18, 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 superc...


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Biology Newsletter April 2020

Apr 21, 2020

Biology April Newsletter - Contents include a note from the Chair, recent achievements, presentations, published papers, and conferences. ...


Jerome Baudry

UAH joins supercomputing effort to find drugs effective against COVID-19

Mar 23, 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 v...


Eric Mendenhall

OK, we’re dealing with COVID-19, but what’s a virus in the first place?

Mar 20, 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 alive? ...


2020 SEB ASM Annual Meeting. 105th Meeting of the Southeastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. February 21-23, 2020. The University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Microbiologists from six southeastern states gather at UAH for the regional ASM conference

Feb 18, 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 southeastern...


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