Less than two years after the first report of wild chimpanzees in Uganda dying as a result of a human “common cold” virus, a new study has identified two other respiratory viruses of human origin …
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New Faculty Focus: LaTasha Crawford
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LaTasha Crawford grew up wanting to be a veterinarian. In college, she realized “the benefits that a comparative biology perspective could bring to … biomedical research.” She is “intrigued and passionate about the brain and nervous system” in both veterinary and human patients.
Small Worms Behind Big Diseases: Unraveling Their Secrets
Posted onMore than 1.5 billion people around the world — about one in five — have a parasitic worm living inside them. In domestic animals and wildlife, the distribution is even more widespread. Sit with those …
Zika Virus Infection May Multiply Risk of Miscarriage, Stillbirth
Posted onZika virus could pose a far greater threat to pregnancy than recent studies of miscarriage and stillbirth in human infections have reported. Researchers at six National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) combined results from individual studies …
Scientists Take a Journey Into the Lungs of Mice Infected With Influenza
Posted onIn the 1966 novel, Fantastic Voyage, written by biochemist and author Isaac Asimov, a crew of people become miniaturized in order to travel through the body of a scientist and save him from a blood …
Zoetis Awards $200K in Grants for Heartworm Research
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Zoetis has awarded three teams of scientists with $200,000 in research grants to support projects that will help advance understanding of the fundamentals of heartworm and explore novel interventions to help prevent it. Grant recipients are: Mostafa Zamanian, Ph.D., and Lyric Bartholomay, Ph.D., of the Department of Pathobiological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine; Sean Forrester, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology; and Guilherme G. Verocai, DVM, MSc, Ph.D., DACVM, director of the Parasitology Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine.
Combating Ticks and Mosquitoes in the Midwest
Posted onBetween 2004 and 2016, the number of people who acquired diseases from mosquitoes, ticks and flea bites tripled in the United States. These include diseases like Lyme disease, West Nile virus and dengue fever. Nine …
Ebola Vaccine Inches Toward Human Clinical Trials
Posted onA whole-virus vaccine to confront Ebola, the rare but often fatal hemorrhagic disease that periodically erupts in sub-Saharan Africa, may soon be one step closer to the clinic. With the help of experts at Waisman …
As Influenza Looms, Madison Firm Advances Human Trials of Revolutionary Vaccine
Posted onAmid predictions that this year’s flu vaccine will offer limited protection, medical researchers are renewing their focus on a universal flu vaccine. A universal flu vaccine would offer more broad protection than today’s vaccines, which …
Monkeys Infected by Mosquito Bites Further Zika Virus Research
Posted onMonkeys who catch Zika virus through bites from infected mosquitoes develop infections that look like human Zika cases, and may help researchers understand the many ways Zika can be transmitted. Researchers at the University of …