In an effort to expedite the return of coronavirus testing results, Colorado State University researchers in Fort Collins have developed a product which would mimic the convenience of a take-home pregnancy test (CBS Denver).
CSU alumna Tina Larson and her colleagues at Recursion have assisted with the body of research on COVID-19.
The team has licensed their viral RNA-testing platform to Quara Devices, a startup company specializing in diagnostic biosensors.
Jean Peccoud at Colorado State writes that manganese complex methods for a coronavirus vaccine may hit complications during any attempt at mass production (Gizmodo).
An algae club has grown out of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, and it’s so popular that it attracts new students from across campus all the time.
Community labs want to make everything from insulin to prostheses. Will traditional scientists accept their efforts? (The New Yorker)
Brian Munsky, a Colorado State University assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, has received an $800,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award to support his research into modeling gene regulation processes.
Lisa Weber, a chemical and biological engineering graduate student, has been named the first recipient of the James C. Linden Fellowship.
A new program at Colorado State University welcomed its first cohort of eight trainees this fall, helping to break down barriers by integrating research and training for graduate students in the food-energy-water nexus.
The Open Insulin Project wants to reverse engineer how the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies produce insulin and then turn over the instructions to the public (Time).