{"id":1236,"date":"2011-11-02T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:58:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T02:58:16","slug":"recent-research-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2011\/11\/02\/recent-research-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Recently released research developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Recently announced research developments at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> include two papers on findings related to work involving viruses and bacteria&#8212;good, innocuous and bad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1287\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/lu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1287\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yuanan Lu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Yuanan Lu<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa professor of epidemiology and environmental health, reports on the successful use of sensitive and effective new protocols for detecting viruses in recreational water. Yu and his colleagues were able to detect human noroviruses, a leading cause of non-bacterial gastroenteritis, in ocean waters. The laboratory protocols could lead to more reliable monitoring of recreational waters. Current water testing relies on detection of fecal indicator bacteria, which haven&#8217;t been linked to disease and may be present in the natural environment.<\/p>\n<p>The findings appear in the November 15 issue of <em>Water Research<\/em>. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=4760\">news release<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0043135411004672\">journal article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1289\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/kang1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1289\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yun Kang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Yun Kang<\/strong>, a <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa postdoctoral researcher in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/microbiology\/\">Department of Microbiology<\/a>, contributed to a significant breakthrough in development of a novel technology to investigate global gene-expression in a single bacterium. This technology will aid studies of prokaryotes (microbial cells lacking a nucleus), which are important in analyzing the function of beneficial human microbes, targeting bacterial pathogens, developing novel vaccines for bacterial infections and understanding microbes that live in extreme environments.<\/p>\n<p>Kang worked with Associate Professors <strong>Tung T. Hoang<\/strong> and <strong>Stuart P. Donachie<\/strong> and colleagues at the J. Craig Venter Institute in Maryland. Their results were reported in the June issue of <em>Genome Research<\/em>. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/article.php?aId=4754\"><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> news release<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/genome.cshlp.org\/content\/21\/6\/925.abstract\">journal abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A provisional patent has been filed for the new technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research roundup: recent papers announce developments in lab protocols and technologies related to viruses and bacteria&#8212;good, innocuous and bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[31,148,149,9,150],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-microbiology","tag-pacific-biosciences-research-center","tag-uh-manoa","tag-zoology","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143024,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/143024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}