The Virginia Bioscience Foundation and the Virginia Biotechnology Association are again sponsors of a competition for high school students doing research in biotechnology.

Read more here to find out about one young man’s journey and the role the Virginia BioGENEius Challenge has played in his life.

VCU’s Massey Cancer Center released results yesterday from a pilot study underway to detect and monitor liver cancer without using biopsies.  WCVE Correspondent Charles Fishburne has this Science Matters report.

It’s been just three weeks since The Center for Conservation Biology created Project Osprey Watch and already more than 400 people from across the U.S and in the United Kingdom have registered nearly 800 nests. The center, shared by William & Mary and Virginia Commonwealth University, wants to sign up even more. Northern Neck Correspondent Pamela D’Angelo reports.  Listeners can find more information at www.osprey-watch.org
 

Two patients with acute leukemia are responding well to the first stem cell transplants in Virginia. As Charles Fishburne reports, the procedures were performed at UVA using cells from the umbilical cord following a birth, a procedure that avoids the controversy surrounding embryonic stem cell research.

Correction:

Massey Cancer Center, Not UVA Was First in the State in Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transplants