Straining* to Understand Chronic Wasting Disease.
Our first Science on Tap of the decade with Dr. Mark Zabel!
SoT faculty mentor Dr. Mark Zabel talked about his lab's efforts to understand CWD, the prion disease that affects wild, free-ranging cervids worldwide. Dr. Zabel, also associate director of the Prion Research Center, discussed unique ways his lab tries to identify CWD strains and how they are different than other pathogens like bacteria and viruses.
*And YES, the pun was intended ;)
