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Roschelle (Shelly) Fritz, PhD, assistant professor at the WSU College of Nursing-Vancouver, is one of 10 nurse scientists accepted to the second cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators.
When Elizabeth Dodson moved from Maryland to El Dorado Hills, she and her husband bought a new home. Three years later, the hot-water heater broke. The warranty had just expired (of course), costing Dodson more than $2,000. She made a typical rookie mistake: Because she wasn’t familiar with hard water, which is common in the Capital Region, she didn’t know that she needed to regularly flush the heater to remove mineral sediment buildup. For Dodson, this was a setback, not a catastrophe. But she asked her contractor, “What happens to the people who make this mistake and can’t afford a new hot-water heater?” She was told they take
NutraWomen Wednesday: Holly Ganz, PhD, AnimalBiome Holly Ganz, PhD, is the co-founder of AnimalBiome, a San Francisco-based company that uses microbiome research and products to help pet parents regain control of their pets chronic GI issues.
Ganz started the company in 2016 after noticing a gap in the market. Today, the company boasts the largest database of cat and dog microbiome samples in the world.
AnimalBiome is predominantly female and this reflects that women have a greater interest in animal health and the life sciences. While 80% of veterinary students are female, the leadership of many pet food and animal health companies today continues to skew male,” noted Ganz.
University-industry partnership leads to a new rapid COVID-19 test
A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J. Gallagher, Jr., chairman and CEO of Allegiant Travel Company, has led to a new rapid COVID-19 test.
A recent study published
Nature Scientific Reports shows the novel method to be 98.3% accurate for positive COVID-19 tests and 96% for negative tests.
This test was made from the ground up. Nothing like this test ever existed. We were starting with a clean slate.
Nam Tran, Study Lead Author and Professor of Pathology, Davis School of Medicine, University of California
The novel COVID-19 test uses an analytical instrument known as a mass spectrometer, which is paired with a powerful machine-learning platform to detect SARS-CoV-2 in nasal swabs. The mass spectrometer can analyze samples in minutes, with the entire process taking a total of about 20 minutes.