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NAU-TGen study results show COVID-19 virus triggers antibodies from previous coronavirus infections

Posted by Heather Tate on January 19, 2021

Jason Ladner working in labThe results of a study led by Northern Arizona University and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, suggest the immune systems of people infected with COVID-19 may rely on antibodies created during infections from earlier coronaviruses to help fight the disease.

COVID-19 isn’t humanity’s first encounter with a coronavirus, so named because of the corona, or crown-like, protein spikes… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Biological Sciences, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU research team sees major shift in relationship between state-by-state traffic and COVID-19 cases, offering insights into outcomes of lockdown policies

Posted by Heather Tate on June 9, 2020

The upper left panel shows that during the month of March 2020, the decline in traffic across the US coincided with the rise in COVID-19 cases. The country responded in a uniform fashion. The lower panel shows how that correlation in traffic-COVID-19 broke down with traffic rising in most states but COVID-19 cases rising in some,… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

NAU pathogen scientist collaborating on vaccine that could prevent and treat COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on June 1, 2020

C. Todd French working in his lab,C. Todd French, assistant professor of biology and leader of Northern Arizona University’s new COVID-19 Testing Service Center (CTSC), is working with scientists at Vault Pharma, an emerging biotechnology company, to test candidate vaccines against the novel coronavirus. Through a multi-institutional public-private partnership linking the company with UCLA, NAU and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, French is part… Read more

Filed Under: College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

Scientists collaborate across NAU’s research centers to create new physics-based technology for COVID-19 detection

Posted by Heather Tate on May 14, 2020

Miguel José Yacamán sitting at a computerOne of the most challenging aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the lack of testing needed to detect and trace infections—and without adequate testing, government officials do not have the data they need to make the best possible decisions in the interest of public health.

In addition to being in short supply, most… Read more

Filed Under: Center for Materials Interfaces in Research and Applications - ¡MIRA!, College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences, COVID-19, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

NAU researchers testing northern Arizona wastewater for early warning of COVID-19 outbreaks

Posted by Heather Tate on May 8, 2020

Crystal HeppWith the ongoing challenges associated with large-scale testing for COVID-19—including test kit shortages, stringent testing criteria and the inherent limitations of current tracking systems on mildly symptomatic and asymptomatic populations, scientists are looking for alternate methods to boost testing in order to predict the spread of the disease. Crystal Hepp, an assistant professor in NAU’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber… Read more

Filed Under: College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences, COVID-19, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, TGen, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

PMI’s undergraduate research program at NAU prepares students for real-world challenges with hands-on experience studying diseases—including COVID-19

Posted by Heather Tate on May 5, 2020

Dawn Birdsell and students in the PMI labAt a time when the world is gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for trained student researchers in the biomedical field may have never been greater. That’s why the unique undergraduate student research training program offered by Northern Arizona University’s Pathogen and Microbiome Institute (PMI), established through the leadership… Read more

Filed Under: COVID-19, The Pathogen and Microbiome Institute

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