Virginia Tech scientists see fluid flow as potential key to fight Alzheimer's disease
(Virginia Tech) Learning how fluid movements in the brain may affect the development of Alzheimer's could help predict, diagnose, and treat the disease that, according to the Alzheimer's Association, currently affects more than 6 million Americans. Cases are expected to double by 2050. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 19, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Scientists launch 'next generation' human brain imaging lab
(Virginia Tech) Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC have received a $2.4 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to measure the brain's subtle magnetic signals in two research volunteers simultaneously as they interact, capturing the rich complexity of the brain's signaling during face-to-face social interactions in real-time. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 13, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Geoscientists find that shallow wastewater injection drives deep earthquakes in Texas
(Virginia Tech) In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep wastewater injections -- can drive widespread deep earthquake activity in unconventional oil and gas production fields. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 10, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Scientists from Virginia Tech, City of Hope aim to improve therapy for deadly brain cancer
(Virginia Tech) Researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and City of Hope believe the complex way fluid flows through glioblastoma tumors holds the key to improving the success of CAR-T cell therapy in treating the cancer and helping more patients survive. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Freshwater salt pollution threatens ecosystem health and human water security
(Virginia Tech) Drivers of freshwater salt pollution such as de-icers on roads and parking lots, water softeners, and wastewater and industrial discharges further threaten freshwater ecosystem health and human water security. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 21, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
New COVID-19 vaccine may offer broad protection from coronaviruses
A COVID-19 vaccine that could provide protection against existing and future strains of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and other coronaviruses, and cost about $1 a dose has shown promising results in early animal testing.
Vaccines created by UVA Health's Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD, and Virginia Tech's Xiang-Jin Meng, MD, PhD, prevented pigs from being becoming ill with a pig model coronavirus, porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 19, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Virginia Tech and UVA virologists develop broadly protective coronavirus vaccines
(Virginia Tech) A candidate vaccine that could provide protection against the COVID-19 virus and other coronaviruses has shown promising results in early animal testing. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - April 16, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Project teams humans and AI to scan social media posts to aid in disaster response
(Virginia Tech) Given the immense amount of data in social media posts, only some of which may be important to emergency managers, researchers are using artificial intelligence, or AI, to make the process more efficient. Such computer systems use a process called machine learning, in which the computers are " trained " by humans, who help identify the characteristics of relevant posts in different situations. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - April 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Grant to study misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine in Appalachia
(Virginia Tech) Researching social media misinformation influence on people's intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, especially those within the Appalachian region. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 5, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Striving to lower suicide risk among homebound older adults through $1.3M project
(Virginia Tech) Matthew Fullen, an assistant professor of counselor education in the School of Education, co-launched a research project to develop and evaluate an innovative training program. Suicide prevention among older adults represents the top goal of the phone-based training. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 15, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
What can stream quality tell us about quality of life?
(Virginia Tech) Findings reveal that demographics such as race and population density, as well as health indices such as cancer rates and food insecurity, show strong correlations with water quality across Virginia. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 5, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Newly discovered millipede, Nannaria hokie, lives at Virginia Tech
(Virginia Tech) " It's not every day that we find new species, let alone on our campus, so we wanted to name the new species for the Virginia Tech community and to highlight the importance of conserving native habitat in the region, " said Paul Marek. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 4, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Social distancing in nature
(Virginia Tech) Long before humans learned about and started 'social distancing due to COVID-19,' animals in nature intuitively practiced social distancing when one of their own became sick. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 4, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researchers explore relationship between maternal microbiota and neonatal antibody response
(Virginia Tech) The goal of the research, Luo said, is to better understand the benefits of microbes in order to recommend solutions, such as probiotics, that could strengthen the neonatal immune system. These efforts could lead to new strategies in medicine -- and healthier babies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 3, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Shade-grown coffee could help save birds, if only people knew about it
(Cornell University) The message about the bird-conservation benefits of shade-grown coffee may not be getting through to the people most likely to respond--birdwatchers. A team of researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Virginia Tech surveyed birdwatchers to learn if they drank shade-grown coffee and, if not, why not. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 2, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
