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A simple slice of the finger sends a complex series of interactions between types of cells into motion. Two types of cells in particular, called macrophages and fibroblasts, work together to clean up and repair the fibers destroyed by the cut.
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The Virginia Tech Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center, located in Blackstone, is working to ensure that the state’s tobacco crop and producers continue to thrive.
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Six interdisciplinary research teams were recently awarded funding through the Institute for Society, Culture, and Environment’s (ISCE) signature program, the ISCE Scholars Program, to address a broad range of pressing contemporary social issues.
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Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS), also known as drones, are permeating many sectors of industry and are increasingly being employed as data collection platforms to support an array of applications.
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If researchers knew what kept farmers from adopting natural methods to grow healthier plants and vanquish pests, curbing hunger worldwide might be more feasible. That assumption underpins a new joint research project at Virginia Tech.
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Litehouse Inc. will invest $46 million to acquire and expand Sky Valley Foods and establish its first East Coast production facility in the City of Danville.
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After a year-long study of the Crozet community, fifth-grade students from Brownsville Elementary will unveil a community mural on the side wall of Parkway Pharmacy in Downtown Crozet.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) applauded the inclusion of provisions that would provide much-needed oversight of privatized military housing for servicemembers in this year’s Senate National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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A researcher from the UVA School of Medicine is helping to lead a new study to understand why people born in rural communities in the South live shorter and less healthy lives than their counterparts elsewhere in the country.
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