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        <description><![CDATA[ Students in the School of Design learn to move beyond designing for users to collaborating with them, emphasizing people-first approaches that prioritize partnership and empathy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A nationwide study analyzed soil samples from across the United States to explore where soil-borne pathogens, bacteria that can cause disease, may occur and how environmental and social conditions could influence potential health risks. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Filling a long-standing gap in clinical science, multi-institutional researchers led by Virginia Tech find good news when comparing movement therapies. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a new study published in Nature Communications, Jiangtao Cheng&#39;s team breaks previous boundaries for the size of water that can be propelled into the air using surface tension. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The study, led by Fralin Biomedical Research Institute exercise medicine scientist Zhen Yan, identified an important cell signaling mechanism that could be a target for treating diabetes. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new study by exercise medicine scientist Sarah Lessard found that feeding mice with hyperglycemia a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet lowered their blood sugar and improved their bodies’ response to exercise. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech’s Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict how quickly individual honey bees learn new associations, offering important insights into human learning and decision-making. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new eNeuro study from the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute reveals how neurons organize genetic messages that support learning and memory — and what that means for medical conditions. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech scientists at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute show that resistance training outperforms endurance exercise in improving insulin sensitivity in obesity and Type 2 diabetes models. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fralin Biomedical Research Institute researchers found that after a cocktail, study participants taking medications for diabetes and weight loss saw delayed effects from alcohol. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A new study by Jennifer Munson and Monet Roberts suggests memory problems and inability to concentrate following chemotherapy could result from poor lymphatic-system drainage in response to the cancer drugs. ]]></description>
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