Behind the masks: Sewing project brings a department together
Volunteers in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology sewed over 1,000 face masks for employees to wear at work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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‘We have to try it’: Tuberculosis expert explores coronavirus vaccine research
The team is selecting pieces of proteins from the virus that are known to elicit an immune response against COVID-19.
Germ Theory: A veterinarian and bovine tuberculosis
CSU Magazine: Dr. George Glover initiated infectious disease research, a premier enterprise at the college that became Colorado State University.
World TB Day invites future scientists into a real lab
World TB Day at CSU offers high school students the opportunity to learn about tuberculosis as a global health problem and gain hands-on experience alongside researchers working to halt to the disease’s spread.
CSU lands $1.2 million in NIH funding to advance work on a new tuberculosis vaccine
At CSU, the research will include a multidisciplinary team of at least 20 researchers, students and staff.
Morning Ag Clips: CSU research enterprise hits $374.9 million
Brian Foy, a professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, received a National Institutes of Health grant in the amount of $3.6 million for a randomized clinical trial in Burkina Faso.
Coloradoan: Friends, family remember beloved CSU professor who started world-renowned lab
As John Spencer looked out at the friends, family, colleagues, former students and rec league soccer players gathered at a local sports bar Thursday to toast to Ian Orme, he knew one thing: "He would have loved this... He had a big heart. He cared about everybody.”
Science News: Leprosy lurks in armadillos in Brazil’s Amazon
Brazilians who hunt or eat armadillos are at a higher risk of catching leprosy than people who don’t interact with the animals, a new study finds.
Quartz: Armadillos are making Brazil’s leprosy problem worse
“Armadillos are kind of a delicacy—think about it like lobster,” says John Spencer, an immunologist who has researched leprosy for years at Colorado State University and led the study.
New evidence that wild armadillos spread leprosy to humans
An international team of researchers has found that human contact with wild armadillos has contributed to extremely high infection rates of a pathogen that can cause leprosy.