Undergraduates In The News
The central nervous system (CNS) cannot fully repair native tissue in the cases of traumatic brain injury or neurodegenerative disease, which may be remedied by hydrogel systems conducive to neural tissue regeneration.
The total ankle arthroplasty procedure, more commonly known as an ankle replacement, is a relatively new procedure used to repair years of wear and tear resulting in end-stage osteoarthritis of the ankle joint. The purpose of this study is to compare ankle joint function and mobility in healthy patients vs. patients who have undergone total ankle arthroplasty.
Fairness is a moral value which people strive to uphold for the purpose of maintaining cooperation following the distribution of resources. We explore the notion that people are so attuned to maintaining fairness that they may see unfairness in outcomes where there is objectively none.
How we detect and perceive our environment, and how we reach to it, is a direct function of the electrical activity of our brain cells, neurons, and how they those cells are connected to each other via synapses to form neuronal pathways and brain circuitries.
Microporous annealed particle (MAP) gel has been shown to act as an effective scaffold for tissue regeneration by providing a three-dimensional structure in which cells can proliferate and tissue can subsequently regrow.
Purpose: Utilizing firsthand accounts of student’s biographies as well as second-hand material to construct a better understanding of the student experience and their beliefs. UVA was a center of intellectual activity but also the students here illustrated the pinnacle of mainstream attitudes and behaviors.
The human brain is an incredibly complex machine. Mother nature has evolved to efficiently create such an intricate structure by massively overproducing neurons and synapses during human development. Over time, only half of these original neurons survive. How does the brain achieve this? How does it differentiate between those neurons that survive, and those that die?
Working mothers face a number of time constraints as they seek to manage both work and family responsibilities. Previous research on work-family strategies has shown that the ‘trade-offs’ working parents make at home and at work are stratified by structural factors such as gender, life stage and access to resources.
The U.S. faces a crisis that is burying cities in tons of landfill waste each day. Most waste management occurs downstream after commingled material has been collected from buildings. Sorting waste at that stage is expensive, slow, and manual.
PURPOSE: Although prior work highlights an exercise dose-response relationship for glucose regulation, no study has assessed the exercise dose needed for reducing arterial stiffness. We tested the hypothesis that increased exercise dose would correlate with reduced arterial stiffness in obese adults with prediabetes.
Throughout life, the ears of birds, fish, and amphibians can regenerate sensory hair cells and recover after deafening, yet the ears of humans and other mammals lose the capacity for regeneration during embryogenesis or soon thereafter. The development of therapies to restore hearing and balance function will depend on understanding the mechanisms that underlie such repair.
Kinesin-6 family member, Kif20b, is a microtubule motor with a known role in microtubule bundling and neuron morphogenesis. We have previously reported that the loss of Kif20b causes microcephaly. When neurons from brains of mutant embryos are grown in vitro on poly-L-lysine (PLL) they have decreased neuron polarization.
The past is often mysterious. By analyzing firsthand accounts and primary documents, a fraction of the mystery becomes clearer. The Washington Papers assists this endeavor by collecting, editing and publishing all of George Washington’s documentary record from his colonial days to the week of his death.
Much of the scholarship centered around the May 1968 Paris protests have ignored women’s participation in the protests, and its correlation to subsequent developments in French feminism.
Damselflies have four wings that are controlled independently during flight. The fore and hindwings typically beat out of phase and the interactions which enhance or attenuate flight forces of the wing pairs is phase dependent.