After a five‑hour journey, a critically ill Shire filly named Vienna received life-saving care at the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, making a recovery against the odds.
With Spanish as her first language, Sonia Lopez-Lopez’ own communication breakdowns were top of mind when she chose to teach the language to veterinary students.
A $2.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will continue nearly five decades of research into better understanding sperm production and regulation in mammals.
There have been five previous documented cases of plague in deer, none of which was in Idaho. The disease most commonly manifests with lesions in the deer’s eyes and results in blindness.
The system launched to detect COVID-19 should now transition to a broader goal of detecting prevalent and emerging pathogens, according to a report from a committee chaired by WSU’s Guy Palmer.
Veterinary medicine researchers received an $800,000 grant to develop a safer, more effective vaccine to combat a tick-borne pathogen plaguing the cattle industry.
The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory recently detected the state’s first case of the disease and is now gearing up for increased surveillance and testing of deer populations.
WSU has received the five‑year, federal grant to continue and expand its NIH Protein Biotechnology Training Program for doctoral students in science and engineering.