Aliquots - Research Briefs Archive — Page 25 of 86
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June 18, 2020
Probing DNA damage repair
After discovering a new mechanism for DNA damage repair last year, Vanderbilt biochemists now provide direct evidence for how it works. -
June 18, 2020
Studying cells in reduced dimensions
Vanderbilt cell biologists have developed an unbiased, quantitative framework for evaluating single-cell data. -
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.