Aliquots - Research Briefs Archive — Page 25 of 86
-
June 9, 2020
Staph’s activation of blood clotting
Staph bacteria may change the factor they use to activate blood clotting — to evade the immune response — a new study suggests. -
June 8, 2020
When rankings are unfounded
There are many good reasons to survey anesthesiology patient satisfaction but ranking individual clinicians isn’t one of them, the authors of a new study conclude. -
June 4, 2020
Protecting the injured kidney
Leslie Gewin and colleagues have upended conventional dogma about Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in the kidney, finding that it protects against chronic kidney disease rather than promoting it. -
June 4, 2020
Potential new cancer target
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered the involvement of a certain type of adenosine receptor in mediating signaling that supports tumor growth and metastasis. -
May 19, 2020
Probing innate immunity
Manuel Ascano team validates an inhibitor of the cGAS-STING signaling pathway, which is important for cellular innate immunity against bacteria, viruses, and our own damaged DNA. -
May 18, 2020
Implant one day may replace dialysis
Vanderbilt researchers used pharmacological manipulations to increase salt and water transport by kidney cells grown in culture, a step necessary for realizing an implantable artificial kidney device. -
May 14, 2020
Antibodies eye Pacific Island “fever”
Vanderbilt Vaccine Center team isolates monoclonal antibodies against Ross River virus, which causes rash, fever and debilitating muscle and joint pain lasting three to six months.