Aliquots - Research Briefs

Combining two drugs reduced colorectal cancer cell growth in vitro and in an animal model, suggesting the combination may be a promising treatment for patients.

Surgical patients are being given more opioids than they need for postsurgical pain management, raising the risk of addiction.

Excess dietary salt activates immune cells to induce inflammation and hypertension, supporting current recommendations for low sodium consumption.

Vanderbilt scientists have discovered a new target for normalizing tumor blood vessels to improve cancer immunotherapies.

An inflammatory factor in mucus could be a biomarker of treatment-resistant chronic sinusitis used to determine which patients are at risk for repeat sinus surgery.

A computational technique that combines the effect of multiple genomic variants has the potential to identify high-risk individuals for cancer prevention.

Identifying the norovirus genotypes associated with more severe infections in children could guide strain selection for candidate norovirus vaccines.