Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Archive — Page 5 of 13

Assortment of colorful blister packs containing pills, including a green pack labeled with days of the week and numbered doses.
August 6, 2020

The importance of estrogen cycles

Deborah Lannigan and colleagues identify a key regulator of the estrogen receptor and suggest that its downregulation by oral contraceptives may increase oxidative stress and DNA damage, a common cause of cancer.

Transparent laboratory pipette marked with red measurement graduations resting across multiple clear Petri dishes containing pink-purple liquid.
July 9, 2020

Keeping beta cells “fit”

Vanderbilt cell biologists are defining the factors that help beta cells in the pancreas stay healthy, secrete insulin and prevent diabetes initiation and progression.

lungs
July 8, 2020

New clues to lung-scarring disease may aid treatment

Scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Arizona, have discovered previously unreported genetic and cellular changes that occur in the lungs of people with pulmonary fibrosis (PF).

Illustration of overlapping purple spherical cells, each with a prominent blue spherical nucleus, against a black background.
June 18, 2020

Studying cells in reduced dimensions

Vanderbilt cell biologists have developed an unbiased, quantitative framework for evaluating single-cell data.

Physician-scientist Gautam (Jay) Bhave stands with folded arms in a laboratory, wearing a white coat and tie, with microscopes, sample bottles, and other equipment behind him.
June 18, 2020

Bhave, Grome receive awards at Research Forum

Gautam (Jay) Bhave, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology, is the recipient of the 2020 Grant W. Liddle Award for “exemplary leadership in the promotion of scientific research” at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Children playing a board game. (iStockphoto)
May 27, 2020

Research probes why COVID-19 seems to spare young children

Lung disease experts at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults and older people preferentially while seeming to spare younger children.