Tracking our inner allies against disease
The microbes that live within us are major factors in keeping us healthy, and nowhere is understanding their involvement more important than in the ICU.
News roundup: July 2020
A selection of health news from the University of Chicago and around the globe curated just for you.
Picking out the relevant needles from the haystack
The new DFI Metagenomics Platform is a powerful tool for helping researchers and clinicians understand how microbial communities interact with each other and the human organism.
Solving new diseases with drugs made for old ones
The work on TB and single-cell technologies may provide answers to the pandemic.
COVID-19 and herd immunity
Herd immunity is likely to work in only concert with a viable vaccination strategy, spread broadly throughout the population.
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