Mosquitoes are like Typhoid Mary. They can spread viruses which cause West Nile fever, dengue fever, or yellow fever without themselves getting sick.
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Glacial erosion changes internal mountain structure, responses to plate tectonics
Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural response from deep within the mountain.
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Science forum brings business people, university researchers together
The Southwest Virginia Science Forum brings together university, college, and corporate researchers to develop new relationships, share ideas, and showcase inventions and discoveries. The next forum is Dec. 10 at the Fralin Life Science Institute (formerly the Biotechnology Center) on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, from 4 to 7:30 pm.
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Research consortium to sequence turkey genome
An international consortium of researchers has begun an effort to sequence the genome of the domesticated turkey.
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Virginia Tech, Wake Forest Biomedical team obtains $4.9 million for trauma research
A group of nine international car manufacturers and suppliers is awarding $4.9 million to the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Science’s Center for Injury Biomechanics, known internationally for its research on trauma and how it affects the human body.
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