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3-D printed swabs developed at UofL to help fill gap in COVID-19 test kits
April 16, 2020
Innovation at the University of Louisville involving multiple departments has led to a promising solution for the shortage of swabs in COVID-19 test kits.
Commonwealth of Kentucky launches initiative to test healthcare workers for immunity and establish top plasma donor pool
April 15, 2020
The Commonwealth of Kentucky, in collaboration with the University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council, is launching a groundbreaking initiative with three large Kentucky hospital systems
UofL researchers discover bacteria causing Legionnaire’s disease is just trying to find a home in human lungs
April 14, 2020
Microbiologists at UofL have found that Legionella pneumophila uses a “tool” that allows it to thrive in an amoeba host and in human lung cells, but with very different results.