Poxviruses could yield protein pathways for coronavirus vaccine
Dr. Amy MacNeill and her team are using the vaccinia virus – used as the very first vaccine, for smallpox – to make a vaccine that would protect against coronavirus.
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Axial/American Chemical Society: Winners of the 2020 ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator Award
Rushika Perera was named an ACS Infectious Diseases Young Investigator. The national award recognizes outstanding young investigators in the infectious diseases field who are within ten years of their last training experience or at the Assistant Professor level.
Colorado Sun: Research at CSU shows why testing only symptomatic people won’t stop coronavirus in Colorado
“I think the very clear message — and this isn’t specific to nursing homes — there are a lot of people out there who are infected or infectious and don’t know it,” said Greg Ebel, the CSU professor whose lab ran the tests.
1310KFKA: Dr. Michael Lappin with CSU’s Veterinary Hospital
LISTEN: Dr. Michael Lappin with CSU’s Veterinary Hospital discusses social distancing for pets.
Cultural differences in coping with interpersonal tensions lead to different short- and long-term responses
Gloria Luong, an assistant professor in Human Development and Family Studies, has investigated how Chinese Americans and European Americans choose different coping strategies in response to a social conflict stressor that may either pay off immediately or in the long run.
Beyond the basics: "Foundational science is the point of discovery"
I’ll give you a current example – the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China. Foundational science asks: Where did this virus come from? How does it relate to the other viruses we already know about? Within weeks, the scientific community sequenced the entire genome of the novel strain and determined its relatedness to other coronaviruses.
JAVMA News: Animal health laboratories aid testing for COVID-19 in people
Dr. Kristy Pabilonia, interim director for the Colorado State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratories, said her laboratory accepted its first 60 nasopharyngeal swabs for testing in early April, following a few weeks of validation, resupply, and CLIA registration, which allows human health work pending an audit for full certification.
“Remarkably detailed view” of Earth at night
The spectacular composite images were captured by the day-night band of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), which is located onboard the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite (Earth.com).
Chemistry student awarded oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, NSF GRFP
Three-year fellowship gives Ian Moseley research freedom to focus exclusively on molecular magnets