Veterinary Medicine

Postdocs Amritha Mallikarjun and Clara Wilson at the School of Veterinary Medicine comment on the difference between a human linguistic interface and a dog’s understanding of matching symbols and buttons to objects and actions.

Scott Larsen of the School of Veterinary Medicine and a team of biologists are tagging, recording, and monitoring black bears in Pennsylvania while helping to change public perception of bears.

Margret Casal of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that the accuracy of tests for dog-breed identification depends on the “DNA library” a company has access to.

Kotaro Sasaki of the School of Veterinary Medicine thinks that producing human gametes could become technically feasible within a decade.

Dean Richardson of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that it wouldn’t take many generations to selectively breed larger and larger donkeys.

Tamara Dobbie of the School of Veterinary Medicine calls for a responsible, evidence-based approach to antibiotics when treating mares with bacterial endometritis.

Deborah Mandell of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that the recent canine influenza outbreak in Pennsylvania appears to be slowing down, though she still advises precautionary measures.

Louise Moncla’s lab at the School of Veterinary Medicine is developing ways to scan genetic blueprints of past outbreaks for signatures of a virus that can jump between different animal species.

A study co-authored by Cynthia Otto of the School of Veterinary Medicine finds that dogs can be trained to detect chronic wasting disease in deer feces.