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Newly Discovered Mode of Drinking in Mosquitoes Carries Biomedical Implications
BEAM Associate Professor Jake Socha talks about his recent study in Scientific Reports detailing the discovery of a new mode of drinking in mosquitoes, which the researchers have named the burst mode. The team used the synchrotron x-ray facility at Argonne National Laboratory to collect live videos of the mosquitoes' drinking mechanisms.
Mosquitoes and the diseases they carry remain an ongoing focus of public health concern. These new findings on the insect’s feeding mechanisms and modalities could have larger implications for how scientists address mosquito-borne disease transmission in future research.
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Biomedical engineering researchers to study knee re-injury risk using wearable sensors , articleSupported by a $2.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and led by Robin Queen, the Kevin P. Granata Faculty Fellow and professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics, a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia will assess second anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries — a tear of the same ACL or of the ACL in the other knee — using wearable sensors.
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Virginia Tech researcher teams with FDA to advance device safety through numerical modeling , articleRafael Davalos, the L. Preston Wade Professor in biomedical engineering and mechanics, is working with scientists at the Food and Drug Administration to develop a numerical heart model, as a regulatory science tool with applications in assessing cardiac ablation devices.
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Weight or energy: Undergraduate student's research finds ACL recovery results and implications for returning to sport , articleIn a study published in Clinical Biomechanics, undergraduate biomedical engineering student Jenna Mesisca and Robin Queen, professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering, discovered the importance of factoring both weight and jump height into the tests that are used to clear athletes to resume physical activity following an ACL injury.
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Jake Socha named Samuel Herrick Professor , articleA member of the Virginia Tech faculty since 2008, Socha’s research and scholarship have placed him as a world leader in two areas – the understanding of flying snakes and internal synchrotron imaging of insects.
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