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Ticky business: How Pitt researchers track the 8-legged bloodsuckers
When Pitt Public Health professor Danielle Tufts and her team of students go out, they bring just a few things: A white jumpsuit, a pair of tweezers, some tiny vials to store specimens and a meter-long piece of white corduroy.
Dengue severity linked to genetic ancestry’s influence on immune response
Priscila Castanha, PhD, assistant professor of infectious diseases and microbiology, and colleagues have linked the extreme variability in severity of the mosquito-borne viral disease dengue to the influence of genetic ancestry on inflammatory responses in the skin.
mRNA vaccine technology makes headway via Pitt, Penn State research
"This study demonstrated two key aspects," said Suresh Kuchipudi, senior author on the paper and chair of infectious diseases and microbiology, "that we can produce mRNA vaccines with much less mRNA required, that will significantly lower the cost of the vaccines."