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Carrigan Cox, 6, holds a doll at Winter Wonderland. (photo by Donn Jones)
December 12, 2024

Winter Wonderland 2024

The event featured an Ace Hardware Tree Farm, holiday musical selections, holiday crafts, face painting and photos with princess characters Elsa and Anna.

Weekly pill organizer compartments filled with assorted capsules and tablets, with orange prescription bottles in the background.
December 11, 2024

Study uses AI to cast light on harmful drug-drug interactions

Using AI, a team identified a gap in post-market drug safety: not all published reports of dangerous drug interactions are taken up by recognized purveyors of drug safety information.

Softball player and cancer survivor Madison Barnett. (photo courtesy Lee University)
December 11, 2024

Second wind: 22-year-old Madison Barnett prepares for return to softball mound after cancer journey

The Lee University pitcher plans 2025 comeback after Ewing sarcoma sidelined her for more than year.

Atomic model of a chikungunya virus particle, shown as a spherical molecular surface with densely packed red, yellow, and gray structures.
December 11, 2024

Vanderbilt joins national effort to develop alphavirus vaccines

The project aims to design computational “tool kits” that can speed development of multi-virus vaccines targeting some of the greatest infectious threats to human health.

Artistic close-up montage of several Black women’s faces shown in vertical strips, featuring varied skin tones, eyes, hair textures, and facial features.
December 10, 2024

Study identifies that higher West African ancestry may contribute to worse breast cancer outcomes 

The study found that West African genetic ancestry was associated with shorter disease-free survival, particularly for women with hormone receptor-positive/human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer.

Members of the Kang lab include (front row from left) Melissa Deleeuw, Jing-Qiong (Katty) Kang, MD, PhD, Wangzhen Shen, MD, and Karishma Randhave, and (back row from left) Ekta Anand, Debbie Song, and Kirill Zavalin, PhD. (photo by Susan Urmy)
December 10, 2024

Therapy for genetic epilepsy in children showing promise

Preliminary results of a clinical trial of 4-phenylbutyrate (PBA) “show a significant reduction in seizure activity among participants.”