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BLACKSBURG, Va. (WFXR)– Researchers at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering are working on a comprehensive map to push the boundaries in the future of brain research. Chang Lu, the Fred W. Bull Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been leading a project to map and provide a visualization of brain biology at a genome-scale in the […]

A new technique to make electronic fibers could help solve wearable technology’s flexibility problem

Papers in engineering are under-represented, even neglected, in the journal. We want to change that. Papers in engineering are under-represented, even neglected, in the journal. We want to change that.

Xiaoting Jia, a computer and electrical engineering professor at Virginia Tech, is working with a team of other experts.

A fiber implanted into the hippocampus could allow scientists to study real-time changes in the brain as the disease takes hold.

Every 65 seconds, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease, a devastating form of dementia that affects 6.2 million Americans.

 E-Mail New Orleans, LA - Research conducted by an international team of scientists discovered a mechanism that leads to Herceptin resistance, representing a significant clinical obstacle to successfully treating HER2-positive breast cancer. They also identified a new approach to potentially overcome it. The work is published online in Nature Communications, available here. "This work attempts to understand why some HER2-positive breast cancer patients do not benefit from treatment with Herce...