News Items

08/09:  How Meningitis Bacteria Attack the Brain (link)

07/09:  Leading Pathogen of Newborns Can Suppress Immune Cell Function (link)  (podcast)

07/09:  Scientific American article on "Squashing the Superbugs" (link) (pdf)

12/08:  UCSD Medical Center News Magazine:  "Seeking New Drugs for Bad Bugs" (pdf)

10/08:  Proto Magazine article: "The War on Superbugs" (link) (pdf)

09/08:  Doran Lab in the S.D. Union Tribune: "Cracking Anthrax" (link)

08/08:  How Flesh-Eating Bacteria Attack the Body’s Immune System  (link)

06/08:  Engineered Protein Shows Potential as a Strep Vaccine (link)

05/08:  ASM News: "Specific Cholesterol-Lowering Agents Blanch and Undercut S. aureus"  (link)

05/08:  Mystery Solved: The Ashwell Receptor Reduces Mortality During Bacterial Infection (link)

05/08:  E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics (link)

04/08:  Researchers Link Master Regulator of Innate Immunity to the Hypoxic Response  (link)

02/08:  New Approach May Render Disease-Causing Staph Harmless  (link)

07/07:  Researchers Discover Key Mechanism to Emergence of Deadly Strep Bacteria (link)

06/07:  Key Finding by UC-San Diego Scientists May Improve Treatment of Anemia (link)

12/06:  UCSD Researchers Discover Internal Compass of Immune Cells  (link)

07/06:  S.D. Union-Tribune: "In the Deep, Healing Drugs" (link)

07/06:  New UCSD Program to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria (link)

02/06:  Flesh-Eating Bacteria Escapes Body's Safety Net (link)

10/05:  ASM News:  "Pigments of Pathogens Might Provide Antimicrobial Opportunities"  (link)

09/05:  Researchers Identify Molecular Anchor That Allows Bacterial Invasion of Central Nervous System (link)

07/05:  S.D. Union-Tribune: "Study finds bacteria's weak spot: color" (link)

07/05:  UCSD Researchers Boost White Blood Cells' Ability to Kill Bacteria (link)

06/05:  Golden Armor: Discovery Suggests New Way to Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Staph Infections (link)

04/05:  Researchers Show Protein's Role in Stopping Bacterial-Induced Inflammation (link)

09/04:  Strep Bacteria Uses Sword and Shield to Win Battle Against Immune System (link)

07/04:  Researchers’ Finding About Pathogen in Newborns May Aid Vaccine Development (link)

09/03:  UCSD Researchers Decipher Function of Blood-Brain Barrier in Bacterial Meningitis (link)

06/02:  Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Young Investigator Award (link)

01/02:  Researchers Link Toxin To Development of “Flesh-Eating” Bacterial Infections (link)

11/01:  Peptide Identified as Natural Antibiotic Providing First Line of Defense Against Bacterial Infection (link)