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Person wearing glasses and a yellow shirt, standing in front of a whiteboard covered with mathematical equations. The caption identifies the person as Anup Challa.

July 18, 2019

Effort seeks to improve safety of drugs given during pregnancy

A 19-year-old student is leading a multi-institutional collaboration to identify drugs that can be prescribed safely to pregnant women without harming the fetus.

By Bill Snyder

Illustration of a green, curved H. pylori bacterium with multiple flagella on a textured stomach-lining surface; a circular inset magnifies its injector-like secretion apparatus at the cell membrane.

July 11, 2019

Vanderbilt team shows how stomach bug can trigger cancer

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have obtained the first high-resolution image of a molecular “machine” used by the insidious stomach bug Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to inject a cancer-causing protein into the stomach lining.

By Bill Snyder