Aliquots - Research Briefs Archive — Page 49 of 86
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January 5, 2017
Heart failure “dashboard”
A new computer algorithm developed at Vanderbilt could save billions of dollars in health care costs by identifying patients at risk for readmission after being hospitalized for heart failure. -
December 12, 2016
Single-cell analysis of solid tumors
A new method will make it possible to study solid tumors and healthy tissues using mass cytometry. -
December 9, 2016
Protecting the blood-brain barrier
Vanderbilt investigators have discovered how a promising cancer immunotherapy causes brain swelling, findings that could lead to ways to protect brain function while fighting cancers. -
December 8, 2016
Making human beta cells reproduce
A new method developed at Vanderbilt will speed the search for potential therapeutics for diabetes: compounds that stimulate the replication of insulin-producing beta cells. -
November 23, 2016
Reducing antidepressants’ side effects
Vanderbilt investigators have discovered how antidepressant medicines that block serotonin uptake can increase bleeding risk. -
November 21, 2016
Building the basement membrane
Vanderbilt researchers have discovered steps in the regulation of a key enzyme that builds the basement membrane, a structure that undergirds nearly all animal tissues. -
November 18, 2016
Targeting the “un-targetable”
A novel drug that targets the protein RSK blocked aggressive breast cancers from metastasizing in an animal model.