Ideas Into Impact: Researchers Share Breakthroughs at Young Academic Inventors Symposium
From emerging diseases to climate change, rising energy demands and growing concerns about privacy in an increasingly digital world, there is no shortage of challenges facing today’s society. At the...Read More
Symposium Explores Tick-Borne Diseases and Emerging Risks on Long Island
In Suffolk County, there are four tick species that are of public health importance and that are responsible for the transmission of a variety of tick-borne pathogens. On May 27,...Read More
New Oral Vaccine Strategy Could Help Combat Colorectal Cancer
Stony Brook-led published research centers on use of a bacterium to trigger immune system response A research team investigating the use of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes against colorectal cancer has discovered a...Read More
Analysis of New Anti-Parasite Drug May Help Advance Treatments
Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than one billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In Africa, Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), better known as sleeping sickness, causes a...Read More
Study: Kidney Disease Compromises Survival of Infection-Fighting Cells
Fighting off infections when one has chronic disease is a common problem, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, that scenario often turned out to be dangerous and deadly. A new study...Read More
Our Body’s “Bleach” Could Be Key to Fighting Common Fungal Pathogen
A study that assesses the effects of hypochlorous acid (HOCI), commonly known as bleach, as it is generated during the immune response of a cell (phagocytosis) when fighting a common...Read More
