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A husband-and-wife team at the UVA Cancer Center have been awarded $1.8 million to improve radiation therapy and breast surgery for patient with early-stage breast cancer.
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Albemarle County, Perrone Robotics and JAUNT announced a Letter of Intent to enter into a partnership to develop, test, and operate an autonomous transit shuttle service pilot in Albemarle County.
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For the second year in a row, Arianna Krinos, a senior at Virginia Tech, has won the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award, established by members of the famed Mercury 7 team.
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There is a tremendous disparity between the need for home-based medical care and the number of frail seniors actually receiving it, a new study finds.
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Digital portfolios, also known as ePortfolios, are commonly used for showcasing work to be assessed by a professor for a specific class.
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Steve Hankey has developed a unique way to track air pollution. However, the experiments of this assistant professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech do not take place in a lab.
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Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists have shown that mutations in specific genes that destroy motor neurons and cause ALS also attack sensory neurons.
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Scientists at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute have solved a 125-year-old mystery of the brain, and, in the process, uncovered a potential treatment for acquired epilepsy.
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In honor of Veterans Day, Virginia Tech and the National Archives will host a transcribe-a-thon to make accessible an unusual collection of wartime documents.
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Diarrheal disease, a preventable and treatable illness, remains the second-leading cause of death in children under the age of 5 and a persistent public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa.
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