Research Archive — Page 126 of 135
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September 23, 2015
Data diving for health
To most effectively use electronic health records for research, investigators should query multiple components of the record to identify patients with specific diseases. -
August 26, 2015
Framework for studying cell responses
Vanderbilt investigators have developed a framework for studying cellular responses that could be used to identify the agents driving a range of biological processes in health and disease. -
August 20, 2015
New type of trial shows promise for several cancers
Anti-cancer drugs are typically tested on one type of cancer at a time. But an international consortium of cancer investigators, including Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) researchers, simultaneously tested an existing therapy in patients with several different forms of cancer that all exhibit the same tumor gene mutation. -
August 13, 2015
Macara lands award to explore cancer cell behavior
Vanderbilt’s Ian Macara, Ph.D., has won an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) — nearly $6.6 million over seven years — to support the “unusual potential” of his research, which seeks to understand and predict cancer cell “behavior.” -
August 13, 2015
VUMC study shifts thinking on how bone fractures heal
New findings show that fibrin, a protein that was thought to play a key role in fracture healing, is not required, shifting understanding of how fractures heal. -
August 6, 2015
New targeted therapy shows promise for rare joint tumor
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigators and colleagues at several major medical centers have been testing a new targeted therapy that is showing promise for the treatment of a rare tumor that forms in and around joint cavities. -
July 30, 2015
Study sheds light on human gut’s ‘pacemaker’ cells
The gut has its own built-in pacemakers, populations of specialized cells that control smooth muscle contraction in the stomach, small intestine and colon.