August 21, 2020
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with many schools and colleges across the United States implementing plans to start face-to-face classroom teaching, the race to develop an effective vaccine is intensifying, according to Purdue University Distinguished Professor of Virology Suresh Mittal. “The availability of an effective vaccine will be vital to protect everyone here in the U.S. and worldwide,” said Dr. Mittal, who is an accomplished vaccine researcher in the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Department of Comparative Pathobiology.
August 21, 2020
Our biomedical engineering lab has developed a way to potentially neutralize viruses lingering in the air using aerosols of FDA-approved food coloring dyes. Aerosols are tiny bits of solid or liquid matter suspended in air.
A potential new weapon in the fight against COVID-19: Food coloring
August 20, 2020
As the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine heats up, the U.S. is looking to prove it can deliver in a national crisis while China is in its own moment to demonstrate its scientific capabilities.
August 20, 2020
he big idea Our biomedical engineering lab has developed a way to potentially neutralize viruses lingering in the air using aerosols of FDA-approved food coloring dyes. Aerosols are tiny bits of solid or liquid matter suspended in air.
A potential new weapon in the fight against COVID-19: Food coloring
August 17, 2020
When Vladimir Putin last week announced Russian researchers developed a coronavirus vaccine the world was, to put it mildly, skeptical, not to mention gravely concerned.
Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine has US scientists scratching their heads
August 12, 2020
Closing the bathroom lid is very advisable amid the coronavirus outbreak, in keeping with a report, as a gaggle of researchers have discovered that the bug can spread through fecal matter that escapes from the bowl throughout a flush.
Scientists say coronavirus can spread through ‘aerosolized feces’
August 7, 2020
The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday (Aug. 7) ratified seven faculty appointments, approved a new degree program and awarded two posthumous bachelor’s degrees. Trustees also approved the renaming of a program and issued resolutions of appreciation for friends of the university.
August 6, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed new light on the needs for improved disinfection methods, both for individuals and facilities.
New approach to airborne disinfection uses food-coloring dyes
August 6, 2020
Purdue University innovators have developed an airborne disinfection method – using food-coloring dyes – to be applied to the entire body and rooms for sterilization purposes and lowering the risk of infection.
New approach to airborne disinfection uses food-coloring dyes
August 5, 2020
About 50% of people who take the drug infliximab for inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease, end up becoming resistant or unresponsive to it.
Computational model could improve success in translating drugs from animal studies to humans
