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In Living Color

Barbara Sherry

Three piglets look into the camera from below, their faces upturned.

Oct 10, 2023

NC State Researchers Partner with USDA to Combat Deadly Virus Affecting Pigs Nationwide

By studying the role unclean vehicles might have in transmitting a swine coronavirus, researchers help boost North Carolina’s food animal industry and support federal agencies in fighting other devastating diseases.
Barb Sherry reviewing samples with team

Jul 12, 2018

Sherry to Head CVM’s Molecular Biomedical Sciences Department

Barbara Sherry has been with the CVM for nearly 20 years, joining the faculty in 1989 as an assistant professor of virology...
Barbara Sherry, Efrain Rivera-Serrano and Shannon Chiera

Sep 28, 2017

Signal Flare: How Heart Muscle Cells Protect Themselves from Viral Invaders

The human heart is particularly vulnerable to viruses. That’s because cardiac myocytes, the heart muscle cells that give your heart its ability to “beat,” have one major weakness – they don’t reproduce themselves to repair the heart in the same way that cells in other organs do. So damage to these cells from viruses or…
Efraín Rivera-Serrano

Dec 15, 2016

In Living Color

When Efraín Rivera-Serrano looks into his microscope he sees a world of color, miniature masterpieces of swirling and sweeping electric blues, greens and magentas...