News

Osvaldo Gutierrez is breaking new ground on the road to synthesizing medicine. The University of Maryland assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry is creating shortcuts for costly experimental trial and error by modeling chemical reactions on computers before taking his experiments into the lab. The modeling allows him to predict how atoms and molecules will arrange themselves during chemical reactions and gives him a leg up on experimentation.

A new study of 1,443 medications found that three prescription drugs currently on the market caused unexpected changes in worms that could point to potential, unrecognized effects in humans.

Don Milton, professor of environmental health, along with lead author and post doctoral fellow Jake Bueno de Mesquita, published an article on how airborne transmission contributes to influenza epidemics. Using data from the largest human influenza challenge-transmission trial, researchers applied the data to university dormitory environments. Drs.