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Pseudomonas bacterial cells (seen here in green) are building a biofilm using a fibrous matrix (in blue).

New Study Reveals the Final Step in RNA Recycling and Offers Clues for Developing Novel Antibiotics

12 Jul 19

3D illustration of a terrapin hauling itself up onto the top of a cliff overlooking tropical waters

Fearless Science: A Half-Century of Bold Research

26 Apr 19

N. gonorrhoeae bacteria (red) penetrate untreated endocervical cells (blue and green)

UMD Files Patents on Compounds to Treat and Prevent Gonorrhea

07 Jan 19

Fighting Human Disease at All Scales, from Multispecies to Submolecular

05 Oct 17

Tissue staining shows group A Streptococcus soft tissue infection at the cellular level. (L-R) Uninfected mouse tissue and mouse tissue 48 hours after infection. The dense dots indicate immune system cells that swarmed in to attempt to control the infection. The densest purple staining toward the bottom is necrotic tissue surrounding bacteria. Image: Joshua Leiberman, UMB (Click image to download hi-res version.)

University of Maryland Researchers Identify Genes Linked to “Flesh-eating” Bacterial Infections

21 Sep 17

These cross-section images show three-dimensional human skin models made of living skin cells. Untreated model skin (left panel) shows a thinner dermis layer (black arrow) compared with model skin treated with the antioxidant methylene blue (right panel). A new study suggests that methylene blue could slow or reverse dermal thinning (a sign of aging) and a number of other symptoms of aging in human skin. Image credit: Zheng-Mei Xiong/University of Maryland

Common Antioxidant Could Slow Symptoms of Aging in Human Skin

30 May 17

Roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) with a disabled eri-1 gene can lose their ability to control repetitive DNA. In the absence of eri-1, even two age-matched siblings can look dramatically different. These differences are because of variable expression from high-copy DNA (green) but not from low-copy DNA (magenta) in the worms’ intestinal cells. In worms with a functional eri-1 gene, even multi-copy DNA is expressed uniformly in all animals.

UMD Researchers Discover a Way That Animals Keep Their Cells Identical

25 Jul 16

Big Questions In Science- 3) How can deadly pathogens be controlled?

10 May 13

Caring Professor Inspires Corporate Success

10 Oct 12

From Research to Market

10 Oct 12

Breaking Boundaries: New Teaching Strategies Cross Disciplines

01 Apr 12

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