Business Insider weighs in. You may have heard mention of the one from Virginia. Another nice recognition for great work from our Dr. Kipnis.
[caption id="attachment_305" align="alignright" width="150"] Dr. Laubach[/caption] Here you can see pig lungs being ventilated on a device called "ex vivo lung perfusion." EVLP, as it's commonly known, is used to assess human lungs prior to transplant. We're lucky to be one of the places in the country that can offer…
This is a freaky one. You sometimes hear that a virus will "die" without a host, or after a certain amount of time outside the body. But there's no real consensus that viruses are alive in the first place. Let's do a little comparison of two well-known disease-causing agents to…
Interesting article in the New York Times on how teaching hospitals, such as ours, might save your life. "For every 83 elderly patients seen by a major teaching hospital, one more is alive 30 days after discharge than if those patients had been admitted to a nonteaching hospital," the article…
Several interesting projects designed to better predict, prevent and treat disease have received funding as part of UVA's research partnership with Inova Health System, according to an announcement that went out today. Nine joint research teams from UVA and Inova will receive a total of nearly $450,000 from the two…
Case in point: A team of our kidney researchers has made a surprising discovery about how the heart forms. They've found that the heart's inner lining is produced by the same stem cells that produce blood. So these busy little multitaskers make both the blood and part of the organ…