Vanderbilt to study use of plasma on LifeFlight, extends trial to Rutherford County base

Key to prostate cancer resistance

A combination of two types of therapy may be more effective in treating castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Keeping an eye on blast trauma

Understanding the cellular and molecular responses of the eye to blast injury could guide new treatment development.

Factor’s role in long bone development

Insight into how the protein neurofibromin participates in the signaling pathway that produces the body’s long bones has implications for fracture healing in some patients.

Model for MADD mitochondrial disease

A zebrafish model of a severe mitochondrial disease will be useful for developing new therapeutic approaches.

Defense Department grant spurs nerve regeneration research

Vanderbilt investigators led by Wesley Thayer, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, have been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Defense to develop a new surgical device that may help repair severed nerves.