Morgridge affiliate Chad Reinstra, a biochemist at UW–Madison, has unlocked the structure of Amphotericin B (AmB), a powerful and reliable drug that saves lives by obliterating serious fungal infections that can’t be diagnosed quickly.
Category: Metabolism
Coon lab’s ’smart toilets’ project a hot commodity
Morgridge investigator Josh Coon’s unique project marrying mass spectrometry technology to the everyday toilet is tabbed as one of the trends to watch in the Wall Street Journal’s “Future of Everything” series.
The (cell) medium is the message: A new tool for studying cell biology in a dish
Morgridge investigator Jason Cantor is partnering with Thermo Fisher Scientific to give biologists a new medium to study human cells in their most natural state.
Researchers publish findings on use of a more human-like cell culture medium to explore gene essentiality
The Jason Cantor Lab at Morgridge is utilizing a new cell culture medium to ask how critical genes are to the survival and reproduction of human cells under different growth conditions. The technique could have important ramifications for the treatment of human diseases.
Unraveling the network of molecules that influence COVID-19 severity
Researchers have identified more than 200 molecular features that strongly correlate with COVID-19 severity.