What's Calcium's role in heart and kidney disease?
Hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis, is a global problem leading to heart attacks and strokes...
A Leap Forward to Cure a Neglected Disease
The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 11 million people worldwide are infected with the...
The Down Low: Curbing the HIV Epidemic in Rural Louisiana
African American men who have sex with men (MSMs) are at higher risk for new HIV infections in rural communities...
Understanding immune system paralysis in times of bacterial stress
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition in which the body's immune response to infection injures its own...
Gene therapy against vision loss in the elderly
Retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration is a key feature of age-related macular degeneration (AMD...
How good are North American mosquitoes at spreading Zika virus?
Zika virus (ZIKV) is usually transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. In different geographic locations...
