$2.6M NIH Grant Backs Search for Genetic Cure in Deadly Heart Disease News / July 7, 2025 Fourteen million people worldwide suffer from enlarged hearts, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a genetic disease that thickens the heart’s walls, making it harder for the organ to pump blood — but many of them don’t know it. The disease is often undiagnosed, despite being the most common genetic heart disease... Read More
Nature’s Instructions: How Fungi Make a Key Medicinal Molecule News / December 18, 2024 For roughly a century, ever since Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, fungi have proven to be a goldmine for medicines. They’ve provided treatments for a wide range of diseases, from infections and high cholesterol to organ rejection and even cancer. However, the process by which fungi synthesize... Read More
