Cystic Fibrosis

Promising work just published in Nature Medicine especially offers hope to chronically ill patients battling drug-resistant infections while most compromised with weakened im

News travels fast with the Internet of things and announcements just made like that of the death of Penny Marshall – film director, producer and actress of “Laverne & Shirley” fame – spreads at warp speed.

By Chris Waters, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Michigan State University

  If you ask a chemist "What element with a one-letter symbol should really have a five-letter symbol instead?" many would say sulfur.  

The body likes things like oxygen to go where it is designed to go.