Published on: April 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM

By Mitch Emmons
Auburn University

An Auburn University-developed light microscope technology that has been on the market since the early 2000s has found new potential as a research tool on the COVID-19 battlefront.

CytoViva Inc., a subsidiary company of the Auburn Research Park-based firm Aetos Technologies Inc. – and the registered name for the patented microscope technology developed by professor Vitaly Vodyanoy of Auburn’s College of Veterinary Medicine – has partnered with Joanna Sztuba-Solinska, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Sciences and Mathematics, to aid in her research efforts.

A molecular virologist, Sztuba-Solinska has previously focused on the herpesviruses but has expanded her research to study SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease.

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