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Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients
Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment.
Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a laboratory breakthrough into a medical treatment.
Neurons may be the marquee cells of the brain, but glial cells are every bit as essential — and they exist in equal or even greater numbers.
A Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine student will embark on a year-long Fulbright study to address the growing problem of opioid addiction.
The USDA will provide funding for three Distance Learning and Telemedicine projects that will help connect rural communities in Southwest Virginia.
Governor McAuliffe announced the inaugural members of the School Readiness Committee and the Standards of Learning (SOL) Innovation Committee.
Literal heartbreak, from illness or injury, triggers the body’s natural healing mechanisms. The result of such mending is often a scar.
Computational Psychiatry shares its name with the relatively new scientific field. MIT Press launched the journal this spring.
The development of drugs to treat brain illnesses such as depression, Alzheimer’s disease, and brain cancer is a crucial but challenging task.
Many patients choose to end treatment early and risk the return of their cancer rather than suffer such a dramatic detriment to their quality of life.
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have reported measurements of dopamine release with unprecedented temporal precision in the brains of people with Parkinson’s disease.
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