Scientists across campus are conducting coronavirus surveillance through widespread wastewater and spit testing on campus.
Dr. Mark Zabel is leading a team to develop the capability to proactively screen a much larger portion of the CSU population with rapid turnaround digital droplet-PCR (dd-PCR) of pooled saliva samples.
A conversation between fellow MIP scientists Mark Zabel and Michael Young covered research funding, undergraduate student advice, prions and more.
A panel of Colorado scientists, including Mark Zabel, answered questions about the coronavirus and how it could continue to affect the community.
Graduate student Kaitlyn Wagner spent 5 weeks in Japan as part of an externship from the Infectious Diseases Research and Response Network.
A recent publication sparks calls for funding rapid field tests to address the growing threat of chronic wasting disease in the United States.
The appearance of chronic wasting disease in countries with no known connections prompted Mark Zabel’s lab to investigate the possibility of multiple strains of CWD.
Scientists worry that chronic wasting disease, a prion disease among deer and cervids, could develop the potential to affect humans.
Discovered within the last 50 years, the spread of chronic wasting disease in Colorado has increased surveillance of hunted wild game for CWD.