Strain-specific plasma cells are capable of producing neutralizing antibodies that are essential for clearance of challenging pathogens. These neutralizing antibodies also function as a main defense against disease ...

In the visual system, retinal axons convey visual information from the outside world to dozens of distinct retinorecipient brain regions and organize that information at several levels, including either at the level of ...

Obesity is a health problem affecting more than 40% of US adults and 13% of the global population. Anti-obesity treatments including diet, exercise, surgery and pharmacotherapies have so far failed to reverse obesity ...

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Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) that cause human disease can be isolated from household tap water. Easy-to-use physical methods to reduce NTM from this potential source of exposure are needed. Filters and UV disinfection ...

<i>Mycobacterium avium</i> is capable of an adaptive, reversible response to high-temperature survival depending on its growth temperature. Trehalose concentrations of <i>M. avium</i> cells grown at 42 &deg;C were significantly ...

In March 2020 the world and Virginia Tech entered the era of COVID-19. Our operations and metrics will no doubt change. The Museum of Geosciences (MoGs) is a tangible way the Department of Geosciences fulfills Virginia ...

The interplay of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) synthetic and degradative enzymes as well as S1P exporters creates concentration gradients that are a fundamental to S1P biology. Extracellular S1P levels, such as in blood ...

To investigate how unpredictable threat during goal pursuit impacts fronto-limbic activity and functional connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), we compared military veterans with PTSD (n = 25) vs. trauma-exposed ...