Lyon College Biology Program

03/09/2026

https://www.science.org/content/article/obesity-drugs-linked-lower-addiction-rates-large-study-veterans

The treatments appeared to help prevent a wide range of substance use disorders and reduce serious harms from existing ones

01/14/2026

https://www.science.org/content/article/how-some-people-get-drunk-their-own-gut-bacteria

Largest study so far of people with the rare “autobrewery syndrome” points to more culprit microbes

12/12/2025

Caves on Earth as proxies for Martian subsurface environments - Volume 24

12/08/2025

This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-term all-cause mortality.

12/02/2025

The SURF program offers an excellent opportunity for you to learn about graduate level research through an interactive environment.

11/21/2025

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

11/18/2025

Here's an update on antimicrobial resistance. It isn't cheery.

From discovering new antibiotics, to implementing policies that steward existing drugs in the antimicrobial toolbox, this issue of Microcosm explores antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and how to combat one of the largest threats to global public health and the environment.

10/24/2025

Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge and trigger a new outbreak years later. How do they survive? And how can they be kayoed?

10/15/2025

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

10/14/2025

This past summer, Lyon College student Levi Neal worked at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology to explore how psychedelics might counter the grip of opioids in the brain.

Read more about this research at: https://www.lyon.edu/news/posts/a-lyon-students-journey-from-lived-experience-to-lab-discoveries

10/06/2025