U collaborates to create “Music for Healing”

Feb. 3, 2015 – Pablo Casals, legendary cellist and conductor, said,  “Perhaps music will save the world.” As a philanthropist and entrepreneur, Emily Richards, a U alum, musician and CEO of the nonprofit music community ccMixter.org, is hoping to use music to change the lives of people battling neurological diseases. Richards is teaming up with the […]

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Identification of a Much-Needed Drug Target Against MRSA, Gram-Positive Infections

The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance, when infectious bacteria evolve to evade drugs designed to control them, is a pressing public health concern. Each year two million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections, leading to 23,000 deaths. In light of these unsettling statistics, there has been a call to develop new weapons to combat bacterial threats to human health.

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