Aliquots - Research Briefs

New research sheds light on how changes in blood vessel forces enhance immune cell activation and promote hypertension.

Alyssa Hasty and colleagues demonstrated that immune cells called macrophages act in fat tissue to store iron and prevent iron toxicity.

The research suggests that metformin should be further studied clinically for the prevention of liver cancer.

The new mapping approach, called suitability score mapping, should improve public health assessments and interventions for geographic-specific infections.

A protein called IRTKS helps build the microvilli that form the border of cells in the intestines, explaining why the protein is a frequent target of gut pathogens.

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered that IgM-type antibodies appear to play a protective role to prevent the development of type 1 diabetes — and that purified IgM antibodies can reverse the disease.

Vanderbilt investigators have developed a new analytical tool to identify, quantify and analyze small RNAs.