WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health announced that it expects to award a grant for research tools for difficult to culture eukaryotic pathogens. The agency description of the grant states: "The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to support high risk, milestone-driven approaches for the development of robust culture techniques, and/or genetic and molecular tools to better understand the biology of select human  more