Researchers study the shelf life of blood
The Wall Street Journal reports that researchers across the country, including Wake Forest’s Daniel Kim-Shapiro, are studying whether old, donated blood heightens the risk of serious complications in some patients receiving blood transfusions.
Categories: Research & Discovery
Professor of Counseling Donna Henderson has developed a counseling program to help some of the millions of people in developing countries who are suffering from mental-health problems.
A research team co-led by the medical school’s Dr. Anthony Atala has demonstrated for the first time that stem cells found in amniotic fluid may be more useful than scientists originally thought.
The Facebook term “unfriend” is the 2009 Word of the Year. Ananda Mitra, professor and chair of the Department of Communication, discusses how technology influences language and social interaction.
Images of the American soldier — captured by photographers on battlefields from the Civil War to Iraq and Afghanistan — have changed over time, according to professor David Lubin, who is writing a book on the imagery of World War I.
Junior Katherine Morgan used a Richter Scholarship to study the lesser-known works of composer Arthur Sullivan in London and New York last summer.
Professor of Physics Daniel Kim-Shapiro and a co-researcher have received a major federal grant to study why the quality of stored blood degrades over time and to investigate ways to make transfusions using older blood safer.
In the ongoing evolutionary battle between bats and moths, a species of tiger moth plays a trick with sound to avoid becoming a bat’s tasty treat, according to new research.
Seasonal local factors and long-term global trends are causing a shortage of honey that has beekeepers, farmers and scientists worried, says Reynolds Professor Susan Fahrbach.