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Here’s your periodic update on News from NIAID-Supported Institutions. The following links will take you to the institution’s press release:

Notre Dame Biologist Nora Besansky leads International Consortium in Sequencing the Genomes of Malaria-Carrying Mosquitoes
November 27, 2014—University of Notre Dame

Drugs to Block Angiogenesis Could Provide New Treatment for TB
November 24, 2014—Duke University School of Medicine

Masking HIV Target Cells Prevents Viral Transmission in Animal Model
November 24, 2014—Emory University

Team Reveals Weak Spots in Ebola’s Defenses
November 24, 2014—The Scripps Research Institute

Climate Change Will Slow China's Progress in Reducing Infectious Diseases
November 23, 2014—Emory University

Researchers Tease Out Glitches in Immune System's Self-Recognition
November 21, 2014—The Johns Hopkins University

Halting the Hijacker: Cellular Targets to Thwart Influenza Virus Infection
November 20, 2014—University of Wisconsin-Madison

Breakthrough in Managing Yellow Fever Disease
November 20, 2014—University of California, Riverside

New Study Reveals Why Some People May Be Immune to HIV-1
November 19, 2014—University of Minnesota

UTHealth Awarded $7.3 Million for Health Information Technology Research
November 18, 2014—The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Creating Trust in the Time of Ebola
November 17, 2014—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ferret Genome Holds Clues to Respiratory Diseases
November 17, 2014—University of Washington

BMC Awarded Seven-Year, $21 million NIH Grant to Investigate Tuberculosis, Improve Treatment
November 14, 2014—Boston Medical Center

Scientists Discover New Properties of Microbes That Cause Common Eye Infection
November 12, 2014—Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Semen Directly Impairs Effectiveness of Microbicides that Target HIV
November 12, 2014—Gladstone Institutes

Research Suggests How Mosquitoes Evolved an Attraction to Human Scent
November 12, 2014—The Rockefeller University

Largest Grant Ever Awarded to UW School of Medicine and Public Health Will Continue Inner-City Asthma Research
November 10, 2014—University of Wisconsin

Inhaled Ebola Vaccine May Offer Long-Term Protection from Virus
November 3, 2014—The University of Texas at Austin

New Technique Efficiently Turns Antibodies Into Highly Tuned “Nanobodies”
November 2, 2014—Rockefeller University

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