Month: March 2021

Professor Dan Gage Among UConn Researchers Involved in Study to use Mussels in the Filtration of Microplastics

Professor Dan Gage among UConn researchers involved in a study to use mussels in the filtration of microplastics funded by a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI). They will study the use of mussels (part of the bivalve family), combined with microplastic-degrading bacteria, in the filtration […]

Collaboration Between Researchers at UConn, CCMC, and Shoreline Biome Yields Promising Findings about Bacterial Infection in Premature Infants in the NICU.

UConn Researchers Collaborate with TIP Company Shoreline Biome to Study Microbiome in NICU March 2, 2021 | Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research Bacteria tend to get a bad rap. But oftentimes it’s one bad apple that ruins the reputation of the bunch. For example, E. coli, commonly known as bacteria that […]