When Bernie Rollin was about to finish his Ph.D. at Columbia University in the late 1960s, he and his wife Linda knew one thing: They wanted to get out of New York and move as far away as they could, to a place that was the complete opposite of the big city.
Tens of millions of Americans have been infected with and survived COVID-19. Many survivors get back to normal health within two weeks of getting sick, but for some, symptoms can persist for months.
"Bart was exactly the perfect patient," said Bart's surgeon Lisa Bartner, a faculty neurologist at the Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Herniated discs are very common in French bulldogs and other breeds with short legs and long backs.
Through the agreement, CSU authors can publish, at no cost, an unlimited number of articles in more than 300 open access journals.
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Christopher E. Kawcak brought in the debate between radiologists, sports medicine clinicians and surgeons at CSU about what is defined as osteoarthritis (OA). “I think it's not so much the incidence has gone up, but [that] the definition has probably scaled a little bit over the last few years.”
As coronavirus (SARS CoV2) continues to wreak havoc across the globe, scientists from a variety of fields at CSU are bringing new ideas and adapting successful old ones to develop vaccines against COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. “All coronaviruses are of animal origin. This (SARS CoV 2) is the seventh coronavirus that has been identified,” said Professor Raymond Goodrich, Director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Colorado State University.
In January, CSU announced new COVID-19 screening guidelines for the spring semester that require about 12,000 students, faculty and staff to be screened each week for COVID-19.
In 2019, scientists published research that showed that astronaut Scott Kelly's telomeres, the caps of DNA that protect our chromosomes and shorten as we age on Earth, actually grew longer while he was on a 340-day space mission compared to his grounded twin, Arizona State Senator Mark Kelly.
Heather Pidcoke, 56, a physician, medical researcher and now a patient, was among the first to receive the locally produced `UCD19 CAR-T cells.’ Pidcoke is now back at work as chief medical research officer at Colorado State University.