Researchers at the University of Virginia are crafting a real-life mouse from stem cells, and it’s starting to grow.
Science fiction’s promise of creating organs for study or transplant is another step closer to reality, thanks to a tiny, manmade embryonic mouse in a University of Virginia School of Medicine laboratory.
In a lab, developed at University of Virginia School of Medicine by Christine and Bernard Thisse, a mouse embryo has a heart that beats. The embryo? Made out of embryonic stem cells.
(Commentary by Matthew Crawford, senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) The convenience of the smart home may be worth the price; that’s for each of us to decide. But to do so with open eyes, one has to understand what the price is.
For the first time, a UVA team has treated a glioblastoma patient using focused ultrasound, part of a multicenter clinical trial that is evaluating the safety of using focused ultrasound to enhance the delivery of chemotherapy in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Coronavirus infections are rising in at least 12 states as the Delta variant spreads. Experts warn some areas could see “very dense outbreaks.” Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician and the medical ICU director at UVA Health, discusses the latest.
Former Washington Football Team right tackle Morgan Moses [a UVA alumnus] will sign a one-year contract with a base salary of $3.6 million with the New York Jets, a person with knowledge of the situation said Friday. Moses figures to start at right tackle to protect quarterback Zach Wilson, the No. 2 pick in this year’s draft.
I was walking in Arlington, Virginia, when I came upon the small, private college Marymount University. I strolled through the campus and came upon four buildings that obviously predated the others. I was surprised to learn later that those four buildings, including the large mansion that Marymount calls “The Main House,” were once owned by [UVA School of Medicine alumnus] Dr. Presley Marion Rixey, the White House physician to President and Mrs. McKinley and later, Teddy Roosevelt. Dr. Rixey is one of those individuals who played an important role in the McKinley presidency, but little is know...
[UVA alumna] Coricka White’s promotion to refinery manager at Domino Sugar’s Baltimore facility came at a hectic time in the nearly century-old plant’s history.
Charlottesville could become a little more accessible. That’s all thanks to the efforts of one University of Virginia civil engineering student. Lena Nguyen is a rising fourth-year student at UVA. She is mapping sidewalks, crosswalks, and curb ramps in Charlottesville in order to make them wheelchair accessible. She notes features like slopes of sidewalks to create overall better transit routes. “Ultimately, we want to give people, especially those in wheelchairs, easier ways to get around town,” Nguyen said.
On June 22, during the first day of the AHIP Annual Institute, the annual conference of AHIP, the nation’s largest health plan association, being held virtually this year, a panel of five health care leaders discussed the important topic of “Health Equity in America: An Urgent Call to Action.” The panel included Dr. Cameron Webb, a leader on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
On June 22, during the first day of the AHIP Annual Institute, the annual conference of AHIP, the nation’s largest health plan association, being held virtually this year, a panel of five health care leaders discussed the important topic of “Health Equity in America: An Urgent Call to Action.” The panel included Dr. Cameron Webb, a leader on the White House COVID-19 Response Team, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
“Leading Republicans have been working to shift the blame to groups like antifa or the FBI — in conservative media, both those groups are frequently portrayed as anti-Trump,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “Perhaps over the past several months, this message has sunk in with Republicans at large, which seems reflected in the polling here.”
Despite the unusually high-profile nature of her vice presidency so far, like most of her predecessors Harris so far has largely remained behind the scenes, said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. “I don’t really think anything about Harris’s performance really stands out as overly strong or overly weak so far when compared to her predecessors,” Kondik said. “Kamala Harris is no different than any other vice president in that she will naturally take a back seat to the president until she is needed to assume the presidential role herself — some...
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said: “Right now I think the Republicans are definitely the more united of the two parties and the Democrats at a certain point are going to boil over because while the first big bill [coronavirus relief] went fine, everything since has not.”
Jalane Schmidt, a professor of religion at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, has been active in the campaign to remove the statues that the Unite the Right rally sought to defend in 2017, and is working on a book about the history of neo-Confederate groups including Sons of Coonfederate Veterans in Virginia. In a telephone conversation, she pointed to an 1 April ruling of the Virginia supreme court which reversed lower court rulings in favor of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and The Monument Fund in their quest to ensure Charlottesville’s monuments stayed in place. “According to...
A.D. Carson, a hip-hop artist and a UVA assistant professor of hip-hop, explains that helping out the folks back home isn’t just a subject of certain rappers’ music, but it’s also part of their practice. Part of the hip-hop tradition. “Thinking about not just shouting out home ... but also how do we bring the people from where we’re from into the space where they might also have access to those resources,” Carson said.
When sharpened shanks of metal whirling at 2,900 rotations per minute slam into skin and bone, there’s not much guesswork involved in determining winner and loser. UVA surgeon Dr. Mark Romness knows the outcome firsthand. In the past two months, he’s treated three children for serious injuries from lawnmowers that sheared bone, shattered limbs and, in the case of a Stuarts Draft first-grader, resulted in an amputation.
(Commentary by Spencer K. Bakich, professor of international studies and the director of the National Security Program at Virginia Military Institute, and a senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center) Since his assumption of power in December 2011, Kim Jong-un reinforced the state ideology of juche, which emphasizes the principles of self-sufficiency and independence in a hostile world.
Doctors at the UVA Health are emphasizing the importance of getting a COVID-19 vaccine as the Delta variant spreads across the United States. The hospital is still seeing COVID patients, but there are currently fewer than 10 people hospitalized with the virus at UVA Health.