Aliquots - Research Briefs

Inducing “tolerance” to bacterial toxins in the endothelial cells that line blood vessels may offer a new approach for preventing the negative consequences of sepsis.

Thirty-three percent of pediatric heart transplant patients developed antibodies against the donor heart, which can lead to rejection, a new Vanderbilt study reports.

Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to study cell signaling networks at single-cell resolution.

Combining inhibitors of the BMP signaling pathway with standard chemotherapy drugs may overcome drug resistance in ovarian cancer.

The growth factor FGF1 induces the growth of new insulin-producing beta cells and may help treat type 2 diabetes.

Treatment for congenital heart disease during infancy may result in cognitive and attentional deficits during adolescence and young adulthood, Vanderbilt researchers have found.

Vanderbilt investigators developed a computerized natural language processing algorithm to extract cancer stages from electronic medical records.