A newly identified form of DNA—small circles of non-repetitive sequences—may be widespread in somatic cells of mice and humans, according to a study in this week’s issue of Science. These extrachromosomal bits of DNA, dubbed microDNA, may be the byproducts of microdeletions in chromosomes, meaning that cells all over the body may have their own constellation of missing pieces of DNA. ... Anindya Dutta, who studies DNA replication at the University of Virginia, and his colleagues were aiming to investigate intrachromosomal shuffling of genes in mouse brain tissue ...
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is on the brink of a noninvasive breakthrough for epilepsy surgery. UVA Neurologist Mark Quigg is helping lead an international clinical trial that looks at ways to use radiation to prevent epileptic seizures.
President Barack Obama announced plans to build a $1 billion network of advanced manufacturing think tanks across the country yesterday from the production-room floor of a disc-manufacturing facility at Rolls-Royce's Crosspointe campus. Obama held up the aerospace giant's partnership with Virginia colleges and universities at the in-progress Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing as a model for his National Network of Manufacturing Innovation. ... The collaboration between the company, industry partners and Virginia State University, Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia is near...
Dr. John Herr
Director of the Center of Cell Biology and SpermCheck’s chief scientific officer and chairman
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Perceptions of conception
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Douglas Laycock
A law professor
Stanley Fish on Church and State
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Peter Onuf
A history profesor
Rick Santorum says happiness 'at the time of our founders' was 'doing what you ought to do'
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Larry Sabato
A politics professor and director of the Center for Politics
California suddenly matters after Super Tue...
By Neil Snyder, a chaired professor emeritus at the McIntire School of Commerce, and author of a blog, SnyderTalk.com
The time has come for India to move on from the out-dated concept of Non-Aligned Movement and work on promoting multilateralism, said Jeffery W. Legro who is associated with Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at University of Virginia.
...there are some courses, conducted by imminent experts and reputed universities which are being lapped-up by students across the world. Take for instance the online course “Building a Search Engine” designed and conducted by computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and David Evans. While Thrun is a research professor at Stanford apart from being a Google fellow, Evans teaches at the University of Virginia. The course is conducted by the start-up Udacity in conjunction with these two professors. The people behind the course were a big draw for students across the world. Registrations s...
A new study is being launched in order to test the efficacy of radiotherapy as a treatment for epilepsy. University of Virginia School of Medicine neurologist Dr. Mark Quigg is to lead an international clinical trial examining the effectiveness of Gamma Knife radiosurgery to see if it could be a useful option for those affected by the neurological condition who have not responded to medication.
... it's extremely difficult to turn a penny into a lethal weapon, and hurling it over the barricades at the top of the Empire State Building won't get the job done. ...If it did strike you, it would feel like being flicked in the forehead — "but not even very hard," said Louis Bloomfield, a physicist at the University of Virginia. And he should know. He recently used wind tunnels and helium balloons to replicate the fall of pennies from skyscrapers. When experimental pennies struck him, it didn't hurt. "I think one bounced off my face once," Bloomfield told Life's Li...
Rolls-Royce is considering a new manufacturing facility at its Crosspointe location near Richmond, VA. The Advanced Blade Machining Facility would be the second major investment by Rolls-Royce in its Crosspointe campus, a new advanced manufacturing and research center that opened last year in Prince George County, VA.
... In a 2009 videotaped interview for the University of Virginia’s “Hot Topics in Finance” series, Wittman recalled that during her four-plus years at Adelphia, she got an intense dosage of what she called “extreme finance.”
... It was not until early January of this year that Barbour was notified of his DNA exoneration, according to Michael Engle, legal director of the Innocence Project Clinic (a University of Virginia clinic where students investigate potential wrongful convictions of incarcerated individuals in Virginia).
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on Wednesday provided faculty, staff and students at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise a detailed description of the search process for a new chancellor.
Your pre-op nurses might be asking for hazard pay and safety IV catheters after reading the results of an alarming new study that found that 1 in 2 nurses experience blood exposure on their skin or in their eyes, nose or mouth at least once a month when inserting or removing peripheral IV catheters. Conducted by the International Healthcare Worker Safety Center at the University of Virginia, the study looked at the practices of 379 nurses nationwide who place IV catheters.
By Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics
Unlike many presidential races in recent history, there probably won't be a "eureka" moment for this GOP nomination. But there are six decisive days that will be worth watching on the road to the Republican nominating convention in Tampa. Three favor Mitt Romney and three favor his opponents. ...
... But are quotas smart public policy? Do they make good business sense? New data has emerged that for the first time shows results about the effects of having more women in management positions. Norway was the first European (albeit non-EU) country to go down that road: since January 2008, all businesses whose stocks are traded on the Oslo exchange have had to have at least 40% women on their corporate board. And now, four years later, there’s a report on how things are going. The report, authored by two American economists, was published this past December. In it, David Matsa and [U.V...
If Martin Davidson had his way, the recent media flubs concerning Jeremy Lin could have been avoided. ESPN’s operation, he said, wasn’t diverse enough to stop a racially insensitive headline about Lin. The lesson for others, said Davidson, a professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, is leveraging difference to the organization’s benefit. His new book “The End of Diversity As We Know It” is billed as a how-to manual for business and nonprofits interested in shifting the way people think about diversity, he said.
The recent controversy over contraception and health insurance has focused on who should pay for the pill. But there is a wealth of economic evidence about the value of the pill – to taxpayers. … A study by Martha J. Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia R. Miller, an associate professor of economics at U.Va., helps assign a dollar value to those tectonic shifts. For instance, they show that young women who won access to the pill in the 1960s ended up earning an 8 percent premium on their hourly wages by age 50.