{"id":1387,"date":"2015-12-03T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mic.med.virginia.edu\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2015-12-03T15:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T19:41:51","slug":"surprising-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2015\/12\/03\/surprising-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprising Science &#8211; By chance, Thomas Braciale, MD, PhD discovered a new way to spark red blood cell production."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Scientific discoveries are often the product of painstaking research over years, but once in a while laboratories get lucky.\u00a0 Such was the case at the University of Virginia\u2019s\u00a0 Immunology Center, where an effort to better understand the immune system led to a finding that could help treat anemia.&#8221;\u00a0 Sandy Hausman (NPR, WVTF) reported that story on Dec. 3, 2015.<a href=\"http:\/\/wvtf.org\/post\/surprising-science\"> http:\/\/wvtf.org\/post\/surprising-science<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas Braciale&#8217;s research is published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jci.org\/articles\/view\/81919\">The Journal of Clinical Investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Scientific discoveries are often the product of painstaking research over years, but once in a while laboratories get lucky.\u00a0 Such was the case at the University of Virginia\u2019s\u00a0 Immunology Center, where an effort to better understand the immune system led to a finding that could help treat anemia.&#8221;\u00a0 Sandy Hausman (NPR, WVTF) reported that story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1777,"featured_media":1395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - 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