Aliquots - Research Briefs
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January 21, 2016
New targets for diabetic retinopathy
Certain protein factors have been identified as attractive targets for treating diabetic retinopathy, a major cause of blindness in adults. -
January 13, 2016
Platelet protein modification
Vanderbilt investigators have identified a new biomarker to assess platelet function. -
January 11, 2016
Improving colonoscopy prep
Providing an educational booklet on colonoscopy preparation increased the odds of an adequate quality of bowel preparation by more than two-fold. -
January 8, 2016
Copying chromosome caps
Telomeres – the caps on the end of chromosomes – are a source of stress for a particular protein involved in copying DNA, a new study reports. -
January 7, 2016
Immune tolerance in endothelial cells
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. -
December 16, 2015
Immune response in transplantation
Thirty-three percent of pediatric heart transplant patients developed antibodies against the donor heart, which can lead to rejection, a new Vanderbilt study reports. -
December 14, 2015
DISSECTing cell signaling networks
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to study cell signaling networks at single-cell resolution.