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New Research Uses Composition and Function to Identify Clinically Important Vaginal Microbiomes

Microbiomes

November 2023

New Research Uses Composition and Function to Identify Clinically Important Vaginal Microbiomes

This could lead to precision treatments that protect women against STDs, HIV, and Preterm Birth

February 2024

Women's Health: The Next Microbiome Frontier

Jacques Ravel, PhD, discusses the role of the microbiome in women’s health.

January 2024

How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves

In Scientific American, Julie Dunning Hotopp, PhD, comments on a study on horizontal gene transfer that may have allowed a worm that kills praying mantises.

  • Depression, stress, and regional cerebral blood flow., Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2023-01-06

  • Treatment Success Following Standard Antibiotic Treatment for Bacterial Vaginosis Is Not Associated With Pretreatment Genital Immune or Microbial Parameters., Open forum infectious diseases 2023-01-07

  • Influence of Hormonal Contraceptive Use and HIV on Cervicovaginal Cytokines and Microbiota in Malawi., mSphere 2023-01-09

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October 8, 2024

Breaking Ground & Blazing Trails:
Celebrating the Science of Claire Fraser

Please join the Institute for Genome Sciences as we celebrate Claire Fraser, PhD, at this scientific symposium. Plan to spend the full day with us. More details will follow.

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Davidge Hall

522 W. Lombard St.Baltimore, MD 21201

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