Minimizing transmission: Testing asymptomatic healthcare workers to find silent COVID-19 carriers
Over the last two months, a team at CSU tested samples from 462 healthcare workers in Colorado.
Daily Archives: April 27, 2020
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Medical Xpress: CBD shows promise for fighting aggressive brain cancer
“Our work shows that CBD has the potential to provide an effective, synergistic glioblastoma therapy option and that it should continue to be vigorously studied,” said Chase Gross, a student in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine/Master of Science program at CSU.
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Walking in beauty: A Navajo scientist confronts the legacy of uranium mining
“Walk in beauty” is a Navajo phrase that I heard a lot growing up. When you walk in beauty, you are in harmony with yourself and with everything around you. You are doing the best you can. I am trying to do the best I can as a Navajo woman and a scientist, to strive for harmony and balance in my work, but the journey is long, complicated, and full of difficult questions.
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First person: Journey to the stars
My journey started in 1969, as I – and the whole world – stood still and watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Fast forward 50 years, and Christina Koch and Scott Kelly spend nearly a year in space on board the International Space Station. These out-of-this-world events bring my own, very earthly path into perspective.
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Wild bison: Education and ecology for the benefit of all
Traditional knowledge and current experience demonstrate that bison are a keystone species with a critical role in ecosystem health. They know how to manage the land and continue to do so once they are reintroduced to the landscape.
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Microscopic genius: The big potential of the very small
“From the farm where you produce your food to whoever is going to eat it, microbes play an essential role. It’s a holistic – and necessary – way of looking at things. And now we have the tools to finally look at this bigger picture.” -Zaid Abdo
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The heart of medicine: Healing the healers
“Our students have worked for most of their lives to get here. We tell them they can relax a bit now, but they’ve never done that. There’s a lot of support for them here… In Healer’s Art, students get to learn about and see each other in a way that is not offered anywhere else in the curriculum.” -Laurie Fonken
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Field notes: The evolution of Colorado’s country veterinarian
For many aspiring rural veterinarians, “living the dream” may look like a James Herriot tale: The only veterinarian in the county cares for all creatures great and small. They run a mixed-animal practice from a brick-and-mortar clinic on Main Street, and have plenty of time for house and farm calls.
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Space Daily: New clues to predict the risks astronauts will face from space radiation on long missions
A team led by researchers at Colorado State University used a novel approach to test assumptions in a model used by NASA to predict these health risks.