PLOS ONE (journal)

October 11, 2018

Community-driven health efforts saving lives in Lwala

Eleven years after two Vanderbilt University medical students established a health care organization in an impoverished area of Kenya, the death rate for children under 5 years old has been cut in half, according to researchers from Kenya and the Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health (VIGH).

By Bill Snyder
July 2, 2018

Mother knows best

The first demonstration of bacterial DNA in mammalian fetal intestinal tissue suggests that the mother’s microbiome moves into the fetal intestine.

By Leigh MacMillan
May 24, 2018

New method to thwart false positives in CT-lung cancer screening

A team of investigators led by Fabien Maldonado, MD, associate professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt, and Tobias Peikert, MD, assistant professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, has identified a new technology to address false positives in CT-based lung cancer screening. The study was published in the latest issue of PLOS One.

By VUMC News and Communications
January 25, 2018

Number of minority trainees on rise, but not minority faculty

Vanderbilt investigators examined the entire training pathway of potential biomedical research faculty and found two key points of loss: during undergraduate education and in transition from postdoctoral fellowship to tenure-track faculty.

By Leigh MacMillan
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September 1, 2017

Restricting HIV-1 infection

Vanderbilt researchers are discovering ways that host proteins block HIV-1 infection, which could suggest new avenues for treatment.

By Leigh MacMillan
storming night with many bolts of lightning
June 22, 2017

VU scientists report a way to calm the sepsis “storm”

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) have found a way to calm the “genomic storm” that triggers the often-lethal consequences of sepsis.

By Bill Snyder
May 17, 2017

Blood type link to cancer survival

Blood type A was associated with longer ovarian cancer survival in a recent Vanderbilt-led study.
By Bill Snyder
April 27, 2017

Children at risk for complications from brown recluse spider bites: study

Medical complications of brown recluse spider bites are uncommon but they can be severe, particularly in children, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) reported April 19.
By Bill Snyder
February 16, 2017

Team’s study uncovers cellular responses to bird flu vaccine

New research from Vanderbilt University eavesdrops on gene expression in human immune system cells before and after vaccination against bird flu.
By Paul Govern
January 19, 2017

GRE may be poor predictor of science success: study

Since it was created in 1949, the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) has been one of the most widely used requirements for admission to U.S. graduate schools. As a predictor of performance and success in graduate school, however, the exam is not without its critics.
By Bill Snyder
October 11, 2016

Culprits in genetic epilepsies

Genetic variation in GABA-A receptors confers risk for inherited forms of epilepsy.
By Leigh MacMillan
June 27, 2016

The odds of asthma

A number of factors during infancy increase the risk that a child will later develop asthma.
By Paul Govern
April 19, 2016

Myelin repair factors

Vanderbilt researchers show that two factors promote the repair of myelin, the nerve cell covering that deteriorates in diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
By Leigh MacMillan