Dr. Brady Michel, CSU alumnus and biological sciences and STEM faculty for MCC, introduced a group of scientists, including CSU researchers Dr. Mark Zabel, Dr. Danielle Adney and Dr. Anna Fagre, to lead the nearly two-hour long discussion about the virus.
Given the difficulty older individuals have in controlling viral infection, the best option is for these individuals to avoid becoming infected by viruses in the first place.
By Brian Geiss: As you age, the reduced “attention span” of your innate and adaptive immune responses make it harder for the body to respond to viral infection, giving the virus the upper hand.
La forma en la que envejece el sistema inmunitario es la razón por la que el virus se ceba especialmente en los mayores de 70 años. (Brian Geiss, associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and pathology, wrote this piece for The Conversation. Spanish translation published in the Spanish newspaper, El Pais)
A group at Colorado State University is working on ways to inactivate the virus, which is one option for developing a vaccine.
Scientists at CSU’s Infectious Disease Research Center in Fort Collins are nearing a key milestone in developing a vaccine for the new coronavirus -- but it’s just one of many hurdles still to overcome
Inside a busy microbiology lab on Colorado State University’s foothills campus, the quest for a coronavirus vaccine has already begun.
The coronavirus outbreak is serious but isn’t a cause for panic, a panel of researchers and experts at Colorado State University agreed Wednesday. Four CSU professors participated in the panel and Mark Zabel, research associate dean in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, served as moderator.
Rebekah Kading, associate professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology is one of many who are working with experts from around the world to determine how bats transferred the respiratory virus to humans, who are now passing it among each other.
VIDEO: A team of infectious disease researchers at Colorado State University are joining the fight against coronavirus. Rebekah Kading interview.