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Underground mine ventilation subject of studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech researchers will use gas tracers as a means of remotely ascertaining information about ventilation control systems following a mine collapse or explosion. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 12, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Hope, Rage and Fort HoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Greetings Welcome to my blog. My name is Tony Scioli (pronounced "showli"). I am a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology who has been studying hope for several decades. For the past 10 years I have been working on a new theory of hope. Along the way, I've written two books on the topic as well as conducting a number of related experiments and developing tests to measure hope and hopelessness. Starting today, I will be blogging on hope for Psychology Today (Hence the title for this post, "Hope for Today"). In this first post, my intention was to devote most of this blog to giving you a sense of my general perspe...
Source: Psychology Today Depression Center - November 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anthony Scioli, Ph.D. Tags: Depression Media Politics Psychiatry 20th century catchphrases clinical psychologist construction view emotion emotions feeling tone Fort Hood hopelessness human beings introductory remarks living in the moment Psychology T Source Type: consumer

Dust control research leads to a NIOSH grant to facilitate adoption of hazard controlsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) In the construction industry, respiratory disease, often leading to disability or an increased risk of cancer, is a major public health concern. Studies led by Deborah Young-Corbett of Virginia Tech's School of Construction have shown that specific types of sanding tools are highly effective in reducing the dust that causes these health hazards. Theodore Koebel of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech has identified strategies to encourage the construction industry to adopt the new technologies. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - November 9, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both linked to psychiatric drugsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(NaturalNews) US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in a violent attack at a Texas Army base this past week. He reportedly opened fire at the Fort Hood army base without any particular reason or motivation. In fact, as a psychiatrist, he had counseled many other soldiers on how to cope with the consequences of extreme violence (losing limbs, mental anguish, etc.).As an army psychiatrist, he was also allowed to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to both his patients and himself. Many psychiatrists self-medicate, and Hasan was extremely anxious about the possibility of being sent o...
Source: NaturalNews.com - November 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news

Murder, Malice, and HopeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We are made uncomfortable by the radomness in our lives. When something terrible happens we search for explanations in the same way that primitive people did when puzzled by the complexity of the universe. Why does one person kill another, or 13 others? The fact that murder has always been a routine phenomenon of human existence does not dispel the horror that it implies or our desire to reassure ourselves that we are less likely to die this way if only we can understand the "motive" for such acts. We can better grasp the idea of murder in certain contexts. We ac...
Source: Psychology Today Personality Center - November 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gordon S. Livingston Tags: Law and Crime Morality Personality Politics Psychiatry american history binghamton ny cafteria Contexts deadly shootings death penalty ft hood george hennard greed health club highest homicide rate human existence inner c Source Type: consumer

Pathogen protection and virulence: Dark side of fungal membrane protein revealedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and Montana State University have discovered a fungal protein that plays a key role in causing disease in plants and animals and which also shields the pathogen from oxidative stress. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - November 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Medical Mysteries:Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
When Shannon Aud, a freshman at Virginia Tech, came home for winter break last December, she was looking forward to a few weeks relaxing with her family, hanging out with her friends and skiing at a West Virginia resort. But on Christmas Eve, when she developed a bad sore throat, Aud figured she'... (Source: Wash Post Health)
Source: Wash Post Health - November 3, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sandra G. Boodman Tags: Medical Mysteries: Source Type: news

Widely used virus assay shown unreliable when compared to other methodsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) In the course of doing research on the mosquito-borne pathogens chikungunya virus and o' nyong-nyong virus, Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about an assay, strand-specific quantitative real-time PCR (ssqPCR), increasingly being used to detect and measure replicating viral RNA in infected cells and tissues. The method most labs are using for ssqPCR is unreliable. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 21, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Virginia Tech Receives Funding for Disease Tracking DatabaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Blacksburg-based Virginia Tech's Virginia Bioinformatics Institute has received a $27.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish an infectious disease database, the Roanoke Times reports. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 21, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news

National Science Foundation Fellow uses ultrasound to research bog turtlesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) National Science Foundation Fellow N. Danielle Bridgers of Suffolk, Va., a fisheries and wildlife sciences graduate student at Virginia Tech, is using ultrasound in her research of the less-than four-inch long bog turtle in order to pinpoint when they will lay their eggs and help protect the endangered creatures. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 20, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Va Tech chemist gets grant to study genetic drugsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A chemistry professor at Virginia Tech is getting a $2.3 million grant to develop heart disease and cancer medicines with fewer side effects. The grant from the National Institutes of Health was awarded to Theresa Reineke. Her research group is... (Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research)
Source: OrlandoSentinel: Medical Research - October 19, 2009 Category: American Health Source Type: news

EPA fellow studies effect of mercury in toadsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Christine Bergeron of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, received a fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research for her research on the reproductive success of American toads. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Research with wood ducks earns graduate student 2 national awardsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Sarah DuRant of Saluda, S.C., a fisheries and wildlife sciences doctoral student in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, received Grants-in-Aid of Research awards from both the scientific research society Sigma Xi and the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology for her work and research with wood ducks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 19, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Johns Hopkins leads in R&D fundingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Physics Today: Johns Hopkins University is again the leading US academic institution in total research and development spending for the 30th year in a row, according to a new the latest annual NSF Survey of Research and Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges. The total funding ranking includes research support not only from federal agencies, but also from foundations, industry and other sources. The university pulled in $1.68 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2008, half of which was based at the Applied Physics Laboratory. Since NSF changed its methodology in 1979 to include sp...
Source: Physics Today News Picks - October 15, 2009 Category: Physics Authors: Physics Today Source Type: news

Chemist receives NIH New Innovator grant for genetic drug researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Theresa Reineke, associate professor of chemistry at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a $2.3 million NIH New Innovator grant, which is designed to fund research that is in its earliest stages and holds potential for exceptionally high impact. She is doing research that will aid in the development of new heart disease and cancer medicines that have fewer side effects. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

The Crisis in College and University Mental HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the past few years, college mental health issues have received increasing attention by the mental health community, the public, administrators, and legislators. Events such as the death of MIT student Elizabeth Shin and the subsequent legal battle, and the series of suicides at NYU a few years ago received prominent media coverage.1,2 In the aftermath of the tragic murders/suicides at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University, college student mental health issues and campus safety have become pressing public health and policy concerns.3,4 (Source: Psychiatric Times)
Source: Psychiatric Times - October 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: info

Tendon, ligament repair in horses focus of researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) One method to treat tendon and ligament injuries is to inject stem cells or progenitor cells taken from the patient. However, the cells' healing properties differ, depending on where within the body these cells are harvested. The Virginia Tech research will compare the capacity of different types of cells to repair damaged tendon. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 8, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Novel Polymer Delivers Genetic Medicine, Allows TrackingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Theresa M. Reineke, associate professor of chemistry in the College of Science, and colleagues in her lab at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems. "My lab has been trying to find a way to deliver genetic-based drugs into cells. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 7, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Genetics Source Type: news

Novel polymer delivers genetic medicine, allows trackingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Researchers at Virginia Tech and at the University of Cincinnati have developed a new molecule that can travel into cells, deliver genetic cargo, and packs a beacon so scientists can follow its movements in living systems. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 6, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

NIH funds new phase of high school-university research partnershipEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) A five-year-old Virginia Tech outreach program, which has more than 12,000 high school students doing research and providing results that scientists can use, has received a $1.3 million Science Education Partnership Award and a $200,000 administrative supplement to expand benefits to more students and more high schools. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 5, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

VBI awarded $27 million from NIH to support infectious disease researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) The NIAID funding will be used to integrate vital information on pathogens, provide key resources and tools to scientists, and help researchers analyze genomic, proteomic and other data arising from infectious disease research. The overall program will comprise four new Bioinformatics Resource Centers and a new gateway portal for the entire project. Each BRC will focus on one of the following pathogen types: bacterial species; viral families; protozoan species; and invertebrate vectors of human pathogens. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 5, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Improved Robotic Hand Captures Mechanical Engineering Top AwardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) has captured another top award for its updated innovative robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 30, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news

National Science Foundation funds systems biology study of crop drought responsesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Water scarcity, caused by factors such as climate change and rapid population growth, can limit crop production, especially when it occurs during essential periods of plant growth. Cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, and barley can be drastically affected by even slight water deficits at critical reproductive stages. Developing a more comprehensive understanding of drought and plants' complex responses to this environmental stress requires a global view of the multiple interactive components involved. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

NSF CAREER award recipient to study work practices of global engineering professionalsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) It is Aditya Johri's hope that his research will advance understanding of how engineers work on teams spread across the world using information technology, and lead to insights that can help educators better prepare future engineers. Such international collaboration in the classroom can transform how engineering students are educated, Johri said. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - September 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Disease Ecology To Be Studied By NIH Fellowship RecipientEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Camille Harris of Ridgeland, Mississippi, a graduate student in biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Graduate Research Fellowship for her study of forest disturbance and its ecological impacts on LaCrosse Virus, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause seizures, coma, paralysis, and permanent brain damage in severe cases. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 28, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news

Improved robotic hand captures mechanical engineering top awardEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) The Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory has captured the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' top award for its updated innovative robotic hand that can automatically change its grasping force using compressed air. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 28, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

NIH fellowship recipient to study disease ecologyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Camille Harris of Ridgeland, Mississippi, a graduate student in biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has been awarded a National Institutes of Health Graduate Research Fellowship for her study of forest disturbance and its ecological impacts on LaCrosse virus, a mosquito-borne disease that can cause seizures, coma, paralysis, and permanent brain damage in severe cases. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 25, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Draft potato genome based on unique potato varietyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium, an international team of scientists from industry and academia in 14 countries, has released a draft sequence of the potato genome. Richard Veilleux, professor of horticulture at Virginia Tech, contributed a unique phureja type of potato variety that accelerated the development of a blueprint for one of the world's most important food crops. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - September 25, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Engineering Team To Design And Study Liver MimicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers will use more than $1 million in grant funding to study engineered tissues that mimic the liver, one of the human body's most complex organs. Padma Rajagopalan, an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering, is designing liver mimics that eventually could form the basis for extracorporeal liver-assist devices. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Liver Disease / Hepatitis Source Type: news

Engineering team to design and study liver mimicsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers will use more than $1 million in grant funding to study engineered tissues that mimic the liver, one of the human body's most complex organs. The primary research goal of these projects is to assemble 3D cellular structures that mimic the liver using the major cell types found in the liver. Liver mimics could eventually form the basis for extracorporeal liver-assist devices. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 14, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Researcher looks for answers about unique disease-resistant geneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Each year, more than 20 percent of all crops are lost to plant diseases worldwide. An NSF CAREER-funded researcher aims to discover how a disease-resistant gene in corn prevents bacteria from invading distantly related plant species. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - September 14, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering Team To Study Knee Ligament SprainsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A team of Virginia Tech engineering researchers has won a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to study knee ligament sprains at the micro-mechanical level. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 10, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Bones / Orthopaedics Source Type: news

Virginia Tech biomedical engineering team to study knee ligament sprainsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech engineers are examining the role of the structural components of knee ligament in sprains by combining micro-mechanical models, molecular models, and biological and mechanical experiments. The study is expected to clarify micro-structural changes, such as the level of collagen crosslink, associated with partial and complete tears. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 9, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Nuclear Engineering At Virginia Tech Supported By NRCEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Virginia Tech's nuclear engineering program will receive $450,000 for faculty development and $399,948 for fellowships from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The NRC awarded nearly $20 million to 70 institutions to boost nuclear education and expand the workforce in nuclear and nuclear-related disciplines. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radiology / Nuclear Medicine Source Type: news

The Secrets Of The Lowly Ground Beetle Could Lead To Better Tissue EngineeringEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Insects are about to be analyzed in a new way by a host of Virginia Tech engineering faculty. They will be using some fancy state-of-the-art equipment, such as a kilometer-long synchrotron x-ray light source, which might be enough to scare any bug. And first up will be beetles, grasshoppers and silk moths because they have some endearing characteristics. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 5, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news

The secrets of the lowly ground beetle could lead to better tissue engineeringEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) The first engineering study of the internal fluid flows of insects, creatures that have evolved efficiently over millions of years, may provide engineers and scientists with new ideas for how to build better artificial tissues and organs, and for the design of new medically implantable microdevices. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Virginia Tech's proposed next generation nano-CT system will enhance nano-scale researchEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech researchers are developing the next-generation nano-CT imaging system, which promises to provide images that will reveal deeply imbedded details, including subcellular features and to greatly reduce the required dose of radiation. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 3, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Award Of $1.4 Million For GenoCAD Development From National Science FoundationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year $1,421,725 grant to Jean Peccoud, associate professor at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, to develop GenoCAD - a web-based Computer Assisted Design environment for synthetic biology. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 1, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news

NIH Recovery Act Funding For Infectious Disease Modeling Received By VBI ResearcherEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A researcher from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to support ongoing work to develop high-performance computer models for the study of very large networks. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - September 1, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: IT / Internet / E-mail Source Type: news

VBI researcher receives NIH Recovery Act funding for infectious disease modelingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) A researcher from the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech has received a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to support ongoing work to develop high-performance computer models for the study of very large networks. Simulations of large networks on high-performance computers can be used to study the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, such as H1N1 influenza (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

National Science Foundation awards $1.4 million for GenoCAD developmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) An NSF award supports development of a web-based Computer Assisted Design environment for synthetic biology, which applies methods developed in engineering to design artificial biological systems that meet user-defined specifications. It has also been used to redesign natural systems to better understand the fundamental properties of living organisms. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Researchers evaluate resistance training for diabetes preventionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Systematic, progressive resistance training -- also called strength training -- is a safe and efficient way for middle-aged and older adults to improve their health. A Virginia Tech led research team that includes experts in behavior, exercise, physiology, and medicine is designing a program to help pre-diabetic adults begin and, most important, maintain resistance training in order to prevent diabetes. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - August 25, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Recruiting Charter ClassEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Nestled near the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute, or VTC, in Roanoke is gearing up for next year. Specifically, the school of medicine is getting the word out to recruit its first class of 42 students for fall 2010. (Source: AAFP Resident and Student Focus)
Source: AAFP Resident and Student Focus - August 19, 2009 Category: Primary Care Source Type: organizations

Va. Tech Gunman's Missing Mental Records ReleasedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The missing mental health records of Seung-Hui Cho were released Wednesday afternoon and indicate that the Virginia Tech gunman was never treated at the school's counseling center, despite orders from a judge that he get the help. (Source: Wash Post Health)
Source: Wash Post Health - August 19, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brigid Schulte and Tom Jackman Tags: Va. Tech Gunman's Missing Mental Records Released Source Type: news

Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffetEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago -- likely fed by osmosis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 19, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

NSF Emerging Frontiers' program supports development of smart materials based on study of fishEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) After engineers and scientists at Virginia Tech, Harvard and Drexel finish studying the locomotion of fish in water, Michael Phelps may find he has a few new ways to increase his world-breaking Olympic times. The remarkable ability of fish to maneuver in tight places, or to hover in one area efficiently, or to accelerate in a seemingly effortless fashion has researchers wondering if they can create smarter materials that emulate the biology of these vertebrates. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 19, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Math model accurately mimics cell division in carbon-cycling bacteriumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) Virginia Tech scientists have developed a quantitative, mathematical model of DNA replication and cell division for the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 13, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Algebra Adds Value To Mathematical Biology EducationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As mathematics continues to become an increasingly important component in undergraduate biology programs, a more comprehensive understanding of the use of algebraic models is needed by the next generation of biologists to facilitate new advances in the life sciences, according to researchers at Sweet Briar College and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 1, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news

Health literacy beyond knowledge and behaviour: letting the patient be a patientEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Content Type Journal ArticleCategory CommentaryDOI 10.1007/s00038-009-0052-8Authors Sara Rubinelli, University of Lugano Institute of Communication and Health Via Buffi 13 6904 Lugano (CH) SwitzerlandPeter J. Schulz, University of Lugano Institute of Communication and Health Via Buffi 13 6904 Lugano (CH) SwitzerlandKent Nakamoto, Virginia Tech Department of Marketing Blacksburg VA USA Journal International Journal of Public HealthOnline ISSN 1661-8564Print ISSN 1661-8556 (Source: International Journal of Public Health)
Source: International Journal of Public Health - July 30, 2009 Category: Global & Universal Tags: International Journal of Public Health Source Type: journals

Algebra adds value to mathematical biology educationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Virginia Tech) As mathematics continues to become an increasingly important component in undergraduate biology programs, a more comprehensive understanding of the use of algebraic models is needed by the next generation of biologists to facilitate new advances in the life sciences, according to researchers at Sweet Briar College and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 30, 2009 Category: Biology Source Type: news