Tumors and centrosomes: Researchers receive grant to investigate cancer evolution
(Virginia Tech) After receiving a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers across multiple disciplines are launching a study to investigate tumor development within a natural environment. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - February 25, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Researchers find parallels in spread of brain cancer in mammals, zebrafish
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech scientists have identified a new zebrafish model that could help advance glioblastoma multiforme research. Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of primary brain tumor - fewer than one in 20 patients survive five years after diagnosis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer)
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - February 11, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news
Is It Time to Wear a Better Mask for COVID-19? We Asked the Experts
Face masks are much more than a symbol. Over the last year, we’ve learned that countries and regions that encourage or require masking seem to do better at slowing the spread of COVID-19 than places that don’t, and new evidence suggests that masking may protect both the wearer and the people around them.
Many TIME readers have recently reached out with questions about masks—which kind of mask should they wear? How do they wear them correctly? Should they be double-masking? And so on. So we asked the masking experts for tips based on the latest research.
Is It Time to Upgrade Your Mask?
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Source: TIME: Health - February 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
NSF grant for philosophy database project
(Virginia Tech) The grant will aid the creation of an open-access searchable database, being developed at Indiana University, of all the publications within the integrated history and philosophy of science since 2007. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 8, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Songbirds exposed to lead-contaminated water show telltale signs about human impacts
(Virginia Tech) Researchers discovered lead levels like those reported in Flint, Michigan, can interfere with the neural mechanisms of vocal development of songbirds and affect mate attraction. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Wearing three-layer masks blocks 90% of infectious particles, experts say
A study from Virginia Tech University found that three-layer masks - with two outer layers of fabric and a filer in between - blocked out at least 90% of potentially infectious particles. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 27, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
$2.1 million to study extended family caregivers of people with dementia
(Virginia Tech) The National Institutes of Health grant will enable focus on a group of caregivers whose challenges are poorly understood. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 26, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
iTHRIV announces health research pilot project recipients
(Virginia Tech) Multi-institutional teams of scientists, physicians, and engineers will study Parkinson's disease, celiac disease, pediatric heart transplant, pediatric telemedicine, and epilepsy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
$100,000 to fund collaborative cancer research
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech, Children's National Hospital award $100,000 to fund collaborative cancer research pilot projects. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 14, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Elusive link between seizures, cell signaling protein ID'd in zebrafish
(Virginia Tech) A team of Virginia Tech scientists led by Yuchin Albert Pan, an associate professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, have identified a new link between seizures and connexin 36 deficiency. The discovery, published Jan. 11 inFrontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, found that this interaction may make the brain more prone to having seizures. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 11, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Bats with white-nose syndrome prefer suboptimal habitats despite the consequences
(Virginia Tech) Bats are mistakenly preferring sites where fungal growth is high and therefore their survival is low. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 8, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Researcher cracks the hidden strengthening mechanism in biological ceramics
(Virginia Tech) In addition to adding strength, this design allows the structure to use its crack patterns to minimize damage into the inner shell. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 6, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
History professor earns grant to explore effects of interstate highway
(Virginia Tech) Currently, no mapping systems exist to pinpoint every community affected by the displacement and environmental destruction. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 6, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Multiple mosquito blood meals accelerate malaria transmission
(PLOS) Multiple bouts of blood feeding by mosquitoes shorten the incubation period for malaria parasites and increase malaria transmission potential, according to a study published Dec. 31 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Lauren Childs of Virginia Tech, Flaminia Catteruccia of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and colleagues. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 31, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Scientists uncover mechanisms that wire the brain's cerebral cortex
(Virginia Tech) A research team at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has identified the type of brain cell that produces a protein that is crucial for the formation of inhibitory circuits in the brain. This insight could one day help scientists establish the basis for developing new drugs that mature or repair cellular networks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - December 21, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
