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Dance marathon planned to conquer movement disorders

February 23, 2017

Breann Shaughnessey lost her grandmother to Huntington’s disease and now aims to raise awareness and funds to defeat the disease.

UofL researcher awarded $2.6M NIH grant to study links between gut microbiota and disease

February 20, 2017

Last year, Nathan Schmidt, PhD, published research showing that microbes in the gut of mice can affect the severity of illness suffered from infection with Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria.