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Innovative Knee Surgery Puts Alpaca Back on His Feet

Hou Rah is an award-winning white Huacaya alpaca living on a farm in Pittsboro. His primary assignment: mating to produce show-worthy offspring. Like any job, it has its occupational hazards. Sometimes Hou Rah takes a little too long in the course of his work. This can make his female partners impatient. Not long ago, one […]

Sherrie Clark named interim department head of large animal clinical sciences

Clark, professor of theriogenology and a diplomate in the American College of Theriogenologists, has been a faculty member in the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine since 2011. Her teaching and research focus on advanced reproductive techniques in a variety of species, with a concentration in conditions that cause infertility.

Gonzalez Named NC State University Faculty Scholar

Groundbreaking intestinal disease clinician-researcher Liara Gonzalez has been named to this year’s class of NC State University Faculty Scholars. Gonzalez, assistant professor of gastroenterology and equine surgery at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, is one of 21 early- and mid-career faculty earning this year’s distinction. Launched in 2012, the University Faculty Scholars program […]

UF veterinarians successfully remove shoe from stomach of Nile crocodile

Dr. Adam Biedrzycki performed a gastrotomy on this 341-pound Nile crocodile Feb. 5 to remove a shoe lodged in its stomach. Assisting was Dr. Garrett Fraess, far left, and others from the large animal, zoo medicine and anesthesia teams. (Photo by Sarah Carey) If the shoe fits your fancy …. swallow it? Not a good […]

Study: ‘Stealthy’ Stem Cells Better for Treating Tendon Injuries in Horses

Treating equine donor stem cells with a growth factor called TGF-β2 may allow them to avoid “tripping” the immune response in recipients, according to new research from the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine. The work could simplify the stem cell treatment process for ligament and tendon injuries in horses, and may also have implications […]

From animals to people and back again

Humans aren’t the only species susceptible to COVID-19. A growing number of other animal species have become infected, posing a threat to the health of wildlife and domesticated animals, and in some cases exacerbating threats to people. Last month, it was gorillas. Before that, it was mink. And earlier still, tigers and lions. All of […]