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漏 cendeced 鈥?stock.adobe Virginia Tech scientists have developed a new COVID-19 test and secured federal and state approvals to begin processing samples at on-campus labs in Blacksburg and Roanoke.The university will support local health departments throughout the region to provide timely analysis to identify patients suspected of having COVID-19 鈥?a critical step in the process of slowing the pandemic in Virginia. No patient samples will be collected at either of the labs 鈥?that step is done by health departments or health systems working with health depar
stanley quencher tments, including the Schiffert Student Health Center at Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech has received emergency permission to begin testing COVID-19 samples and we have notified local health departments that we are ready to begin receiving samples soon, said Michael Friedlander,聽executive director of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Virginia Techs vice president of health sciences and technology. With expanded testing becoming crucial to controlling the pandemic, in Virginia and the nation, Virginia Tech faculty, staff and graduate students went to work to answe
stanley thermobecher r the challenge. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration FDA issued Emergency Use Authorization on Monday for the university to proceed with testing. FDA review of the validation is pending. After review, the university will receive official notice as to whether full FDA approval is granted.With hospitals challenged by shortages of criti
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Despite junior guard Precious Halls Tallahassee, Fla./Maclay School career-high seven 3-pointers, No. 23 James Madison womens basketball fell 80-64 to No. 10/8 Maryland on the first day of the San Juan Shootout at the Mario Morales Coliseum on Friday.JMU dropped to 4-1 on the season while Maryland improved to 6-0 on the year.Hall led the day for both teams with 29 points, including all of the Dukes made 3-pointers. Senior forward Toia Giggetts Norf
stanley usa olk, Va./Lake Taylor dropped in a season-high 18 points.JMU scored the first bucket of the day off a jumper by Giggetts, but Maryland posted a 7-0 run to ta
stanley thermos ke a 7-2 lead heading into the first media timeout. The Dukes closed the gap to one point at 11-10 with 13:08 left in the first half, but the Terps mounted an 11-0 run to push the lead out to the first double digit lead of the day.Maryland went on to continue that run to a 20-5 mark and led by as many as 16 points with 6:23 to play in the first stanza. Madison settled in with a brief 6-1 run to close the gap, and the Terps held a 40-27 lead heading into halftime. JMU got as close as nine points twice in the second half, but were unable to get any closer.The Dukes committed 13 tur
stanley cup novers to the Terps 10 in the first half, allowing Maryland to outscore JMU 18-5 off giveaways, but they settled in for the second half of play and committed just five compared to UMs 12 and outscored them 13-5 in points off turnovers.As a team, JMU shot 37.5 percent from the floor, including 42.4 per
