Females are less susceptible to infection but are 10 times more likely than males to develop an autoimmune disorder, such as hypothyroidism or rheumatoid arthritis. The female immune system is “a double-edged sword” in that way, said Jennifer Franko, a teaching assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology at the School of Medicine.
Research
Join us for the first Office of Technology Transfer Lunch & Learn topic of the semester, Introduction to the Office of Technology Transfer and the IP Process, Sept. 10 from noon to 1 p.m. in Erma Byrd 301.
Learn the fundamentals of keeping your data secure and organized through brief introductions to the core areas of data management: file storage and organization, file documentation, data preservation and data sharing.
Mining engineers are developing a method to create a self-supply of rare earth elements in the United States from coal waste.
The 17th annual West Virginia Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol will be held in the West Virginia Capitol Rotunda Feb. 7, 2020 beginning at 8:30 a.m. We encourage undergraduates to apply/submit abstracts (due by midnight Nov. 1, 2019) to present their work.
About 70 percent of the human genome doesn’t code for anything. When it’s transcribed to RNA—the instructions our cells follow when they make proteins—most of the message doesn’t contain any useful information. As West Virginia University researcher Aaron Robart put it, it’s “junk DNA.”