Using a manufacturing platform developed to prevent the transmission of disease during blood transfusions, IDRC staffers are working with the faculty of several departments at CSU to test an internally developed vaccine candidate dubbed SolaVAX.
As day-to-day interactions have been disrupted by COVID-19, communal howling offers a way to express both joy and grief – and can include coyotes.
Over the last two months, a team at CSU tested samples from 462 healthcare workers in Colorado.
Raj Trikha, a graduate student in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University, has competed in statewide and regional graduate research competitions presenting his research about gut microbes.
Prepared with the necessary certification for laboratory testing performed on humans, the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is ready to help the local community process more coronavirus tests.
Over the last decade, there have been advances in manufacturing and in strategies to rapidly produce a vaccine.
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Propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic, a CSU research team is pursuing a vaccine that would thwart the novel coronavirus using a genetically modified form of the well-known probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus, a bacterium commonly ingested in yogurt and other foods for gut health.
The core technology for the new disinfectant is based on the same principle CSU disease researchers are testing for a vaccine against the novel coronavirus.