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Monday, July 26, 2021 – 9:02am Morris photo provided.jpeg Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists (CRES) will welcome Tate Morris, D.V.M. ’16, to its faculty July 26. “It is a pleasure to have a veterinarian as skilled as Dr. Morris join our team of clinicians,” said Dr. John Pigott, medical director and associate clinical professor. “I look […]

The Dutch virologist, based at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, caused a firestorm of controversy about a decade ago, when he and Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced that they had successfully mutated H5N1, a strain of bird flu, to pass through the air between ferrets, in two separate experiments. Ferrets are considered […]

“There is a real temptation to feel, because we’ve improved, the pandemic is over and everyone is safe,” UW-Madison Pathobiological Sciences professor Dr. Thomas Friedrich said in a statement. “This notion is not true. What we can’t afford is to backslide now.  We need to consider all the important things we are currently able to […]

Aspen uses the water treadmill in the Texas A&M Small Animal Teaching Hospital’s Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation service. Veterinarians are making strides in learning more and more about man’s best friend, thanks to recent discoveries in the field of canine health, but a lot of questions still exist when it comes to mobility issues in […]

Research at UW-Madison has been crucial to the COVID-19 response in Wisconsin, and the university is now getting some new help to keep the research going — to try to get ahead of whatever the next threat may be. Virology professor Thomas Friedrich is one of the researchers involved currently with coronavirus variant sequencing. “Is […]

Thursday, July 22, 2021 – 10:00am image 2.jpg A lung macrophage infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the bacteria that cause tuberculosis. Photo: Russell Lab Tuberculosis continues to be a deadly threat across the globe, and our knowledge regarding what controls disease progression is limited. Now, in a paper published July 22 in the Journal of […]

Epidemiologists can’t stop disasters like the next pandemic or antimicrobial resistance. Instead, says a University of Guelph One Health researcher, they need to focus on the societal aspects of these issues. Dr. Jane Parmley, a professor in Ontario Veterinary College’s Department of Population Medicine, is working to discover how to make vulnerable populations – whether […]

The wood and plains bison are majestic creatures weighing 1,200 pounds, but their conservation could depend on single-celled gametes (reproductive cells) that are measured in microns.

Oklahoma State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association (OVMA) recently held their annual Summer Seminar, successfully offering the continuing education opportunity virtually June 18-19.

Dr. Pat Conrad Retires as Distinguished Professor Trina Wood July 21, 2021 Trina Wood Dr. Patricia (Pat) Conrad celebrated her retirement from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine on July 1 as a distinguished professor of parasitology after more than 33 years—a fact she still finds surprising. She served as the Associate Dean for Global […]