Restoring the American chestnut by researching its genome
(Virginia Tech) Now, a $500,000 grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture will help Associate Professor Jason Holliday research methods to utilize the genetic diversity of remaining trees as part of broader efforts to introduce disease-resistant American chestnuts to US forests. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 23, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researcher discovers how mosquitoes integrate vision and smell to track victims
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech researcher Cl é ment Vinauger has discovered new neurobiology associated with mosquito vision and sense of smell that explains how Aedes aegypti mosquitoes track their victims. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 22, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Graduate student earns prestigious NIH award to map unexplored brain region
(Virginia Tech) Over the next 2 years of his dissertation research, Ubadah Sabbagh, a Virginia Tech translational biology, medicine, and health graduate student working at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, will create the first atlas of the vLGN's cellular and molecular characteristics. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 22, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researchers publish new study on citrus greening disease
(Virginia Tech) A new study published by researchers at Virginia Tech with a team of international researchers in Journal of Applied Ecology investigates the thermal suitability for transmission of citrus greening with implications for surveillance and prevention. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 15, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
CAREER award given to develop bio-friendly brain implants
(Virginia Tech) Rising to the challenge, Xiaoting Jia, an assistant professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award to develop a multifunctional neural interface device that is highly flexible, scalable, clinically translatable, and bio-friendly. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 15, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researching new ways to use secondary logging materials
(Virginia Tech) They can be converted to electricity or utilized as a heat source in pellet stoves. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 11, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Using Facebook data to study how misinformation spreads -- grant
(Virginia Tech) Tanushree Mitra, assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering and a faculty member at the Discovery Analytics Center, has received a Social Media and Democracy Research Grant, giving her access to Facebook data to study how misinformation and other problematic content spread on the platform. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 9, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
$3.1 million NIH grant given to create universal flu vaccine
(Virginia Tech) In the race to create a universal flu vaccine not dependent on predicting strains of flu, the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources has been awarded a $3.1 million grant. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Virginia Cardiologist Murdered While on Vacation in Belize Virginia Cardiologist Murdered While on Vacation in Belize
Gary Sw., MD, 53, was medical director of Carilion Clinic ' s Cardiac Catheterization Lab and an associate professor of internal medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
NSF award funds Pitt research on ionic liquids
(University of Pittsburgh) Investigators from the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, in collaboration with Virginia Tech, have received a National Science Foundation award of $223,093 to examine how water affects the molecular structure of IL at IL-solid interfaces. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 28, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Local solutions to global climate challenges -- NSF grant
(Virginia Tech) A National Science Foundation grant will help Professor Marc Stern of the College of Natural Resources and Environment study and develop workshops that will empower local communities to take action against climate challenges. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Researchers find that probiotic bacteria reduces the impact of white-nose syndrome in bats
(Virginia Tech) Researchers from Virginia Tech and UC Santa Cruz did a field trial on the effect of probiotic bacteria on white-nose syndrome in bat populations. They found that it reduces the impact of the disease about five-fold. These findings were published recently in Scientific Reports. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 26, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
How Facebook and Google avoided FEC ad disclaimers during 2016 presidential election
(Virginia Tech) The first academic research study to look specifically at how Facebook and Google deadlocked the Federal Election Commission's efforts to regulate digital political advertising. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
$2 million NIH grant renewal to study hepatitis E virus
(Virginia Tech) 'Why would the virus infect pregnant women and apparently cause such a high mortality?' -- X.J. Meng (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 21, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
'Sneezing' plants contribute to disease proliferation
(Virginia Tech) ' " The jumping droplets, at the rate of 100 or more an hour, are a violent expulsion of dew from the surface. It's good for the plant because it is removing spores from itself, but it's bad because, like a human sneeze, the liquid droplets are finding their way onto neighboring plants. ' (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - June 21, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news
