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Aull About History 9, Part I - Morgantown, Land Before Time

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WVCTSI at WVU one of 8 ECHO Superhubs in U.S.

WVU Today The West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute Project ECHO program has been spreading specialty care knowledge across the Mountain State for five years. Building upon its success, the project can now lend resources and expertise to health providers beyond West ...

Marion County firm lands $24M NASA contract

FAIRMONT – If you want to hear about that $24 million NASA contract, you have to take the car tour, first. One look at rocket ship-styled hood ornaments and other trappings on that 1957 Chevrolet Nomad told the tale in Wade Linger’s garage Wednesday afternoon. The Chevy Nomad was a ...

Reseachers want to save salamanders

WVU Today  Two of West Virginia’s mountain-loving salamander species are wrestling for resources and space as climate change threatens their habitats.  Researchers with the West Virginia University Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design have slithered in ...

How do animals regenerate limbs?

Salamanders can regenerate their limbs. Instead of scar tissue, the cut is transformed into a wound epidermis, activating chemicals that cause the nerves underneath where the limb was taken away to grow again. Muscle and tissue cells regress back into unspecialized cells. Cells begin their ...

'I've found three-legged frogs out there'

Click to listen to this story MORGANTOWN — Standing at the confluence where a tributary feeds into West Run, Dr. Jason Hubbart motions to the right where flowing water appears milky-white. He motions to the left, where deep red and orange sludge covers every crevice in the ...