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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.

UofL researchers describe possible mechanism for link between obesity and breast cancer

April 13, 2020

It is widely accepted that higher levels of body fat increase the risk of developing breast cancer, as well as other cancers.