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A display on black fabric featuring a painted pumpkin, small white pumpkins, autumn leaves, multicolored corn, and a partially visible sign reading “9. NEUROLOG…” alongside a hand-drawn diagram titled “Anatomy of a Pumpkin Neuron.”
October 27, 2023

Winners of 2023 pumpkin carving/decorating contests announced

Space aliens! Minions! Nerds! A candy corn blowfish! This year’s entries have it all.

By Wayne Wood
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April 25, 2023

COVID alters respiratory microbiota

COVID-19 infection alters the microbes of the upper respiratory tract for at least several weeks, and such disturbances could impact disease severity and be targets for therapeutic interventions.

By Leigh MacMillan
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February 2, 2023

COVID-19 battle begins in the nose

A high upper airway concentration of the virus that causes COVID-19 was associated with changes in gene expression that could impact disease progression, Vanderbilt researchers discovered.

By Sarah E. Glass
VUMC’s new automated biobanking system can store as many as 10 million biospecimens.
August 25, 2022

New high-tech biobank safeguards critical specimens

By Bill Snyder