Bacterial resistance is becoming more common in hospitals, and it’s accelerating.
Earlier this month, Dr. Jeff Elias, Professor of Neurological Surgery at the University Medical Center, received approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of essential tremor using focused ultrasound technology.
A team of scientists from UC Berkeley recently revealed a model for the tree of life — a diagram that attempts to depict the phylogenetic relationships between all living organisms.
Charlottesville Open Bio Labs, located on West Main Street, is a public laboratory space for anyone interested in pursuing biological research, and it provides a variety of educational programs in research techniques and creative applications. Lead Education Intern George Saado, a second-year College student, said he is excited about its promise as an institution that fosters community involvement in biological research and development. “Whole genome sequencing they do for like a hundred dollars now,” Saado said.
Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, a Nobel Laureate whose work can be applied either directly or indirectly to nearly every medical field of research, spoke at the University Tuesday.
Microbiology Prof. Victor Engelhard, who is co-director for the immunotherapy department at the University Cancer Center, conducts research on T-cell-mediated immunity to cancer, in the hopes of eventually developing a vaccine for patients already battling the disease.
The University was recently named a HEARTSafe Campus by the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation due to its strong commitment to public awareness as well as its extensive Automated External Defibrillator program.
In last Thursday’s “Rediscovering Pluto” panel, Alice Bowman, the Mission Operation Manager (MOM), and Anne Verbiscer, a University planetary geologist and associate research professor of astronomy, discussed the revolutionary New Horizons Mission to Pluto.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, the University, along with the Virginia Department of Health (VDH), and a number of other medical schools and accountable care organizations (ACOs) hosted the second annual Population Health Summit for Virginia.
The fact that opioids are so prevalent in healthcare makes them particularly important to study and control.
This Friday, medical students at the University, and around the country, celebrated Match Day — the day they find out to which residency programs they’ve been accepted.
As spring draws near, various groups around Grounds begin hosting “darties” — outdoor, day long parties.
Last week, a School of Medicine research team announced that doctors may be able to predict a patient’s risk of having a second (recurrent) ischemic stroke using a simple blood test.
Ischemic stroke can occur when an artery that normally brings fresh blood from the heart and lungs to the brain is blocked.
This semester, a new class called Neuroscience Research for Non-Majors is being offered. Biology professor George Bloom is the program director for this course and is intended for students conducting research in neuroscience who are not neuroscience majors.
HIV/AIDS student activists from across the nation gathered together at the University Feb. 26 to 28 for the 2016 Student Global AIDS Campaign Conference.
“Nutrition and Diabetes,” a recent long-term study published in Nature journal, has found the Paleo Diet may be doing more harm than good.
Rearing their heads in a variety of forms, eating disorders do not discriminate — affecting individuals regardless of their social class, economic status, gender, race or age.
On Friday, Yap Boum II, PhD, gave a talk about his experience with Ebola vaccine trials as part of the Center for Global Health’s Infectious Disease and Biodefense series.
Studying impoverished children in Bangladesh, Dr. Jeff Donowitz, infectious disease specialist at Virginia Commonwealth University and infectious disease fellow at the Medical School, was the head researcher of a two-year-long study that found the overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine likely causes a stunt in growth, cognitive delays and possibly the failure of several oral vaccines.
