Breast cancer survivors: eat nuts

Breast cancer survivors who reported eating nuts regularly had 50% reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence, metastasis or mortality, Vanderbilt epidemiologists found in Shanghai Breast Cancer Survival Study.

Pancreatic beta-cell booster

Blocking inflammatory signaling improves beta-cell characteristics in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes and may provide added benefits to GLP-1R diabetes medications.

The challenge of rejection

Minimizing variation in how rejection is diagnosed and creating standardized surveillance protocols may help inform best practices in pediatric heart transplants.

VUMC researchers a step closer to broad ebolavirus protection

Zost honored for research on COVID-19, other life-threatening viral diseases

Vanderbilt’s Seth Zost, PhD, has been awarded a major international prize for his research on COVID-19 and other life-threatening viral diseases. 

Study links genetic variants, protein expression and human diseases

An international research team has developed a new resource that connects genetic variants and protein expression, which is expected to speed the identification of genes that cause disease — and point to novel treatment strategies.