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The novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2, is currently causing a worldwide pandemic that has infected more than 5 million human beings, and the number continues to climb.
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One of the biggest global challenges facing future generations will be providing access to clean water for daily use.
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Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.
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Illegal timber trade is a global industry estimated to account for $50 billion to $150 billion each year.
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A Virginia Tech expert has tips for dinner-table conversations around contentious issues over the holidays.
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Banning e-cigarettes could potentially have some unexpected consequences, according to Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC addiction research expert Warren Bickel.
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Jin Xu, associate professor of finance in the Pamplin College of Business, has received a Best Paper Award for an article she co-authored that provides important evidence for the tax benefit of debt financing.
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Researchers from Virginia Tech received a $2.9 million award from the National Science Foundation and the National Natural Science Foundation of China to understand the long-term host and pathogen dynamics of white-nose syndrome in bats.
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Virginia Tech biochemist Brandon Jutras has discovered the cellular component that contributes to Lyme arthritis, a debilitating and extremely painful condition that is the most common late stage symptom of Lyme disease.
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Researchers from Virginia Tech were part of a collaborative $958,415 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the host-microbiome-parasite interactions in the honey bee gut, with $750,000 coming to Virginia Tech.
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