An interdisciplinary team of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital researchers will study the possible link between the human microbiome, the mitochondrial genome and premature birth with a four-year $600,000 grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

By Jane Stancill, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jun. 9--CHAPEL HILL -- A new effort to produce more high school math and science teachers in North Carolina will be supported by a $5.3 million grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, UNC President Erskine Bowles announced Friday.