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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe supports commercializing Virginia’s research to help more researchers bring their technologies to market and encourage the growth of more innovative businesses in the Commonwealth.
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After implementing a new rule for 2013 mandating thigh pads for all National Football League players, the league asked University of Virginia biomechanical researchers to test how well available thigh pads protected players against injuries.
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The vast majority of broccoli sold in the United States is grown on the West Coast. Why not grow the crop here? That’s the question behind a $3.2 million, five-year research project that began in 2009. Several Southwest Virginia broccoli growers are involved.
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Stanford Patient Education Research Center is recruiting participants for the Active Living with Chronic Conditions Tool Kit Program and Research Study.
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The Homecoming at Montgomery Hall Park will take place on Saturday, July 13 from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. with proceeds from the sale of food and beverages at this free event benefiting the African American Heritage Festival.
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As hearing specialists, one of the sometimes frustrating things we encounter in our practice is that the conditions that have caused hearing loss in our patients can’t be reversed.
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The link between genetics and mental illness continues to engage Abram Hostetter, a psychiatrist who is in his fourth decade of world-recognized research into why Old Order Amish are more susceptible to bipolar disorder than the general population.
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DuPont Community Credit Union Marketing Specialist for Research, Connie Milionta, recently completed the Principles of Marketing Research Certification from the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and the Marketing Research Institute International.
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Approximately 68 percent of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, according to the National Cancer Institute, which puts them at greater risk for developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a host of other chronic illnesses. But an international team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Andrew Larner, M.D., Ph.D., has successfully reversed obesity in mice by manipulating the production of an enzyme known as tyrosine-protein kinase-2 (Tyk2).
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A new center of neuroimmunology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine will bring together researchers from across disciplines to unlock the secrets of complex diseases and disorders ranging from multiple sclerosis to autism to Alzheimer’s.
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