«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre
for Microbial Research in Sweden.
Brent Christner, associate professor of biological sciences, should be preparing his research team for the roughly 8,000 - mile trip to Antarctica to
continue microbial research, but a lapse of funds from the National Science Foundation has buried those plans.
The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå Centre
for Microbial Research, Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, S - 90187 Umeå, Sweden.
In a Science article published Oct. 30, 2015, 17 U.S. scientists — including microbiologists, physicists, chemists and physicians — announced the creation of the Unified Microbiome Initiative (UMI), an interdisciplinary group that will coordinate areas
of microbial research and make funding recommendations to federal agencies, private foundations and corporate partners.
Called the Ambrose Monell Collection for Molecular and
Microbial Research, the lab is home to thousands of frozen microscopic genetic samples.
This new tool may benefit genomics researchers, marine chemists and
the microbial research community.