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Virginia Tech

Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth’s most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 215 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 30,000 students and manages a research portfolio of more than $450 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia.
From top left: Biologist Bryan Hsu with immunologist Liwu Li. Bottom left: Zachary Baker, a doctoral student in the Hsu Lab, and research assistant professor Yao Zhang from the Li Lab.

Biologists transform gut bacteria into tiny protein pharmacies

Categories Health
Emotional words evoke region- and valence-specific patterns of concurrent neuromodulator release in the human thalamus and cortex. Batten et al/Cell Reports

Scientists Map How Brain Chemicals React to Emotional Words

Categories Brain & Behavior
Optically Pumped Magnetometry Magnetoencephalography (OPM) devices are lightweight, wearable headsets that measure brain activity while allowing research volunteers to move freely and interact.

Advanced Brain Imaging Reveals the Neural Dance of Decision-Making

Categories Brain & Behavior
Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics

Building a COMPASS to navigate future pandemics

Categories Health, Social Sciences
A Virginia Tech study of wildlife common in Virginia found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread in animals, particularly around areas of high human activity. The researchers identified variants consistent with those circulating in humans at the time, and one opossum with previously unreported viral mutations, underscoring the potential for changes that can potentially impact humans and their immune response.

Virus that causes COVID-19 is widespread in wildlife

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans
A cotton gauze stockinette coil that is filled with the powdered biomaterial (at left). The powder-filled coil is then inserted in a menstrual cup (at right).

Powder Could Transform Menstrual Products, Boosting Comfort and Safety

Categories Health, Technology
Mighty (in front) and Bo cuddle during a Virginia Tech-led study of the benefits of housing dogs together in animal shelters. The pair proved to be loving companions and chose to sleep together – even though a separate bed was provided. Photo courtesy of Erica Feuerbacher.

Housing compatible shelter dogs together could cut stress, help them find homes sooner

Categories Life & Non-humans
Fireflies lighting up a backyard in New York.

Expert says fireflies aren’t going extinct, but their numbers are dwindling

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Life & Non-humans
An illustration depicting a cityscape with buildings, roads, and infrastructure, with a cutaway view showing the underground layers

China’s sinking cities raise alarm for globe

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics
Cicada on a branch

Two Rare Cicada Broods to Emerge Together for the First Time in Over 200 Years

Categories Life & Non-humans
Researchers talking amongst each other

Dance between dopamine and serotonin influences social behavior

Categories Brain & Behavior
cows and researchers

Scientists work to translate cows’ moos into language and meaning

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans, Technology
Bottles of booze. Credit Pixabay

Drugs used to treat Type 2 diabetes reduce alcohol cravings

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health
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